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5%
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3.8
Average Rating
(based on 64 IRS Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.7
Growth Opportunities
3.4
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.0
Rewards You Receive
3.7
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
3.9
Work Setting
3.9
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Tax Examining Technician

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The pay is very good, comfortable location and prestige of a federal government job"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest, trustworthy, and have a high degree of integrity"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"there are a lot of unexpected occurrences, every day is different, change and the unexpected are the order of the day"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be honest, dependable, and treat your employees well, they are an asset to the workforce, employees are not a disposable commodity"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Programmer

"All IT related"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Researching ways to solve problems of a growing company. Ability to establish new procedures."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Not really. It is a growth company, and has potential to evolve."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"The long 80+ hour weeks. The constant demand for your time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire more experienced employees. Better training courses. Realize employees' contributions."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Revenue Agent

What do you like about working at IRS?

"I love tax law and really enjoyed meeting the business owners."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"My tips for others is to be accurate, fair, and friendly."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"I did not like to assess taxes to the poor."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The only thing I would suggest to management is to keep it simple."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Tax Preparer

"Was a wonderfuly internship which developed my interest in tax"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Provided practical experience and allowed development of communication with clients."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"There was no interview to work with Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (IRS)"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Our office tax season was shorter then a traditional office."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Since the office is a temporary location find a larger location for the volume of clients and workers."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Group Manager

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Plenty of opportunity for those looking to advance. Management does the right thing and not just the easy thing. They make a huge investments in training and education."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be decisive and display a sense of fairness. The Service likes decision makers that do the right thing. Overzealous sells well with a few but in a job where you will ultimately have a great deal of power you need to have balance."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Some managers are a poor fit to their job. Mid and upper level management is slow to admit a mistake and very slow in making necessary changes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Because we're part of Government we do move with the political winds. I think a little more resistance to this issue would provide both employees and the public with the fact that we are here year in and year out to fairly apply the law to all citizens"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Data Entry Processor

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Growth Training and Benefits How you can grow in company"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"How company is doing if it is public check stock"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give freedom to employee and give them a chance to achieve goals"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Reliability Engineer

"It was an interesting job working wih good people."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"It is a seasonal job, about 4 months a year, but is interesting work with good people"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The work requires problem solving skills and analysis to apply job guidelines to work required."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"I worked the evening shift which was a less formal work place. However the hours did not help my home life."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They needed more coordination between departments to eliminate creating problems and making the job more difficult."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Tax Examining Technician

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The culture of organization was very professional, training, knowledge management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try to gain a permanent position, great place to work."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"I did not like working for a short season, temporary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take ownership for employees work performance and ownership as leaders."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Revenue Agent

"The office was fraught with lazy employees that didn't earn their wages."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"There was little fear of being fired or laid off."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure that you are able to talk about how you listened to what your boss told you to do."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"There was very little incentive to progress or to work hard."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to have more control over how and when to reward employees."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Lead Customer Service Representative

"Worked at IRS for 20 years but need a career change"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The people were the best part of working there, being part of a team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Dress for success and realize teamwork is the only way to work together to be successful."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"The upper management didn't listen to base management about the workload and how to improve it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As the leader of the team, listen to employees about improvement."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Engineer

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Being a government job it had probably the best job security around"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You should apply for as many open positions as possible and be prepared for a long wait hearing back."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"the commute is very far for me and for my family it would be nicer to have a smaller commute"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Working from home as a benefit it one that can really go a long way to offer on a more regular basis"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Certified Volunteer

What do you like about working at IRS?

"I had a great time with my supervisor and coworkers since they were helpful and taught me a lot."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Internal Revenue Service could offer more volunteer opportunities which cover more fields to students."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"The assignments I was assigned coulde be diversified. Also, I believe I could learn more if this internship last longer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management worked good so I don't have any suggestion so far."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Computer Technician

"Professional"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"My job, feedback and rate in the company. Great, friendly team."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"No opportunity to grow. No benefits. No any changes in salary rate. No vacations."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Company Auditor

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Reasonable salary, flexible work hours, immediate managers are approachable and helpful, senior management is a joke, they do not live in the real world."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"not a good place if you are ambitious and looking to make a mark as well as being suitably rewarded for your efforts"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"lack of respect for staff, no investigation of how changes being implemented impact on those actually doing the job. Basically you are a number and salary advancement and promotional opportunites are very limited"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Attempt to get to know how his decisions impact on the services provided to taxpayers and place more value on his employees"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Revenue Agent

"Good education and professional background and very hardorking"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Opportunity for growth. The nature of the job. Using current technology to enhance the audit process"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know your materials. This is the key to efficiency that is needed to succeed"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Too much rules and regulations to follow. This contribute immensely to delay"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Implement time management programs. Eliminate many of the time consuming rules and regulations."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

IRS Reviews FAQs

Is IRS a good company to work for?

IRS has an overall rating of 3.8 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 64 IRS Review Ratings left anonymously by IRS employees, which is 3% lower than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 94% of employees would recommend working at IRS.

Does IRS pay their employees well?

IRS employees earn $35,000 annually on average, or $17 per hour, which is 47% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 25 IRS employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find IRS Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at IRS?

94% of employees would recommend working at IRS with the overall rating of 3.8 out of 5. Employees also rated IRS 3.7 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.7 for Rewards You Receive, 3.4 for Growth Opportunities and 3.8 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at IRS?

According to our data, the highest paying job at IRS is a Senior IT Administrator at $196,000 annually. Browse IRS Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at IRS?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at IRS is a Administrative Clerk at $18,000 annually. Browse IRS Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at IRS?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at IRS to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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