IRS reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,635 total reviews)

32% positive business outlook

IRS has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,635 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Mar 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The job has some flexibility in shift, mostly when you start/leave. Usually during the day. The people are generally nice, intelligent, and willing to help if you have a question. Programs are pretty straightforward. Training is pretty good.

Cons

Massively regulated when you are there. Deviation of more than a few minutes from the schedule given to you at the end of the previous week often requires an e-mail to your manager. Lots of information to try to remember, or remember where it is. Programs sometimes fail, requiring you to default to the DOS-style interface for the server program, which is not intuitive at all. You are trained on the old system, but little chance to keep refreshing that knowledge, since use of several tools is required. Career advancement takes a long time unless you are perfect all the time, and even then it depends on the budget, which can change drastically.

1.0
Mar 16, 2015

Not a healthy workplace

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, work-life balance, overtime opportunities for both seasonal and temporary employees, easy extra income, excellent mentorship from an outstanding trainer/work leader last season

Cons

Hard to advance due to current budget cuts. Low morale among permanent employees. Management and training qualities depend on people in charge. Last season we had a completely different group of trainers who were kind and patient enough in responding to everyone's inquiries and delivered course materials in a friendly, straightforward manner. One former trainer/work leader I would like to mention is Grant, he was exceptionally competent in carrying out the role as a classroom instructor and work leader, he is very intelligent and also treats people fairly. While in most other departments favoritism plays a big role, diversity issues are prominent, bullies get recognized and promoted, underperformers are remained hired, these unfortunately happen in our department this year.

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