IRS Reviews

Pros

Great benefits. Great pay. Overtime always available.

Cons

Training is outdated. Training isn’t hands on.

Pros

Different opportunities available if you are unhappy with your job. Many jobs permit working from home. Donated sick leave if you run out of your own. It is a union job so managers cant just fire you or pick on you. Potential bonus available. Holidays, good vacation and sick time. Great pension if you put your funds into it as IRS will match some percentage of it (free money is always good) NOTE: my experience / job does not cover all positions/types of work

Cons

Tons of paperwork and administration work take time away from the actual job. A bit too much pressure on finishing tasks when IRS is short staffed and/or equipment is old. Lots of old equipment. Many jobs are one person jobs: it is 'yours' and no other person does your job when you are out sick/on vacation so work piles up. IRS tries to save money by finding and securing new vendors, software, etc. The time it takes to learn the new steps is too much as it happens too often. There was one piece of software I never learned - I had no time -- and it was recently replaced. Great, avoided wasting time that eats into my regular 'real' work with that one. New persons will miss out on interactions with older staff due to "work from home". I learned most of the job from interacting with coworkers and/or listening. It takes about 5 years to really learn the job, the software, the law, the rules, etc

Pros

Good stable job. There's a training or manual for everything, so great for beginners! It's government, red tape yes something to deal with or be aware of. But with the befits pto, sick and union its a pretty good place to work.

Cons

People soft skills are highly valued or will mostly determine if your manager goes easy or harder on you. Just try not to ruffle any feathers.

Pros

Tax law education and guidance

Cons

Slow moving job. Unable to advance quickly, based on tenure not performance.

Pros

Work/Life balance is the best reason to work for the Treasury. I’ve never had to work past my schedule (8-4:30), I work from home and only have to go to the office 2 days per pay period.

Cons

I hate having to record my time and I thought leaving public accounting I would get away from this, but you’re required to record all of your time working cases or doing admin work. And obviously there are no big bonuses or significant salary increases compared to public accounting and private industry.

Pros

Excellent Pay, and benefits, great coworkers.

Cons

Lots of down time right now before Tax time, a little to much standing.

Pros

Direct managers tend to friendly

Cons

-in 2022 and 2023 16 hours of mandatory overtime was required for months with no communication about end dates. They made us call into their overtime hotline every two weeks on our own time to find out - Upper management is incredibly disconnected with the day to day work of the average employee. - Data entry is a dead end job. No opportunity to gain skills for internal promotion across departments.

Pros

learning the internal processes-many moving parts, so some different challenges than private sector. job security; retirement; many insurance provider options

Cons

unfortunately, managers tend to be people who are not knowledgeable of the tasks or even have management training, because the promotion structure. So, if you are a high performer, you will more than likely not have opportunity to move up, but rather employees who perform poorly and are bullies, quickly get promoted to lead/management roles and run off the good workers. Therefore, the low overall ratings and high turn-over rates. It's quite a disappointment.

Pros

Great Organization, good WLB, stellar benefits

Cons

Not many cons, other than it can be bureaucratic like all government agencies

Pros

Career Opportunities available once you get in the front door. Firsthand experience in how different departments run within the IRS Good Annual/Sick Time. Decent Pay.

Cons

Workload and Time Constraint for certain assisntments. Management and workload sometimes have unrealistic expectations. Systems used to get tasks done are cumbersome and slow progress.