IRS Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Intense, Fast Paced and challenging."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The people I worked with, learning the tax laws etc and helping tax filers who had money coming back and didn't know it."

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

"Just tell them the honest truth because THEY will check your entire background!"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"All the red tape and out of date computers and programs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to retire and give someone else a chance who isn't a hundred years old."

"A good second step for seasoning"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Ample vacation time."

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

"Enjoy the dialog but don't be political."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Monotony."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Borrow from private industry."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Working with the Admin. Judge"

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

"Be a hard worker"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Pay grade advancements are too slow"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More Training"

"I enjoyed this position for many years although it was seasonal."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"customer service"

"Unfair practices against taxpayers. Especially people making less than 200,000 a year."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"I enjoyed working with taxpayers and educating them about the law thru the audit process."

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

"I would not work for this company again. Working with American people was great. But management made the job unbearable with the unrealistic expectations they place on field agents."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Managment is incompetent and unethical."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think an outside agency needs to come in to audit IRS. The information needs to be reported to congress. The IRS has so much corruption in it, yet they want to hold the taxpayer accountable for every penny."

"Not worth the few benefits!"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Very little was appealing to me about the position. However, you can always depend on working the same schedule each week with very little variation. Also the benefits you receive will be cheaper than those offered in the private sector. Also, once done with your first year of work, you have very good job security."

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

"The interview is a simple phone test. What they are looking for is someone who speaks clearly on the phone and is able to relay information to the taxpayers. Also, during training, avoid drawing attention to yourself by asking questions regarding policy. Usually your instructor will not be clear on the answer and you may find yourself unintentionally making the instructor look bad, which you may find affecting your ability for any upward advancement."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Everything else regarding the job can be very frustrating. Management prefers you not ask questions and when you do, you usually do not get the required information needed to complete your task. You may also find yourself unintentionally bringing negative attention to your self which may make it harder for you to advance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to introduce a more stable work environment that is fair to all employees. A good start would be to decrease the amount of middle management and to make sure that those managers are able to assist their teams with questions regarding an employees main job duties, which include proper knowledge of tax codes and policies."

"All-in-all a great place to work"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The co-workers were great and so were the benefits and advancement opportunities."

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

"Be yourself and honest."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Sometimes the customers were a little cranky."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work!"

"Seasonal work"

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

"It's a good seasonal job"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"No complaints"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They were pretty good."

"Left to open my own accounting practice"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"A lot of variety and very interesting audits"

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

"Be leery. Management is not good."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Manaement did not respect the eployees"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to work as a team with employees"

"Many things are swept under the rug."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Once I was a proud Government employee ..."

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

"Professional appearance is a key."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Incompetent management!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should treat employees in a better way..."

"Contract position"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Nothing"

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

"Don't"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Everything, rude, arrogant management"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Terrible place to work, managers need to respect staff."

"Accurate."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Helping individuals with their tax problems."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"First real job was just happy to have one after returning from the war."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"the late shift"

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

"be able to type and stay on task"

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"ratio of men:women"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"keep it up"

"A decent place"

What do you like about working at IRS?

"Well organized."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Typical government red tape for everything"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire from outside more"

"Don't do it, you'll regret it."

What do you like about working at IRS?

"The benfits and hours."

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

"Dont do it."

What don't you like about working at IRS?

"Just about everything."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Run it like a business."