I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IRS (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
They asked questions about difficult situations, like conflicting tasks or meetings where one has to prioritize or like receiving conflicting data on a taxpayer or a taxpayer getting emotional about their financial position or a taxpayer missing deadlines to provide documents or missing appointments. The questions are formal and structured. They did a group interview with a couple people taking turns asking questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you handle a taxpayer that gets emotional over being in a difficult financial position?
Two interviewers, both supervisors, asked predetermined questions back-to-back. Interview was 30 minutes long and very little time to describe professional experience. Mostly technical questions and about one or two behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Expects you to know what each tax form (by number) is for and related schedules. Then asks you to describe steps of auditing that form.
Virtual. Long back end process to do background check and to receive offer. Total time took over 6 months after initial application. Manager and Director present. Conversational. One two three four
Entire interview was just situational questions from a prompt. No chance to discuss background whatsoever. All questions were linked to needing some technical answer. Job was not described in interview as posted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What statements you must request from a client for an audit
