Bureaucratic Nightmare - Internal Revenue Agent IRS Employee Review

2.0
Sep 19, 2023
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Pros

Work-life balance, 40 hours really is 40 hours. Supportive coworkers

Cons

Working here is a bureaucratic nightmare. You spend 70% of the day doing needless admin work and the rest doing actual work. While coworkers are supportive, managers generally are not. Management and senior revenue agents are surprisingly unprofessional and rude. If you’re a young professional, do not make my mistake and come here. You’re better off in Public Accounting or Industry. This position is a dead end and heaps no exit opportunities.

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Cons

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Pros

-Got me started in my career as an auditor -thorough tax law training -many senior auditors helping you learn the profession

Cons

-communication from management is not always transparent -when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you get verbal abuse from not only POA and taxpayers (understandable, given this is the IRS), but also management/OJI's. They want to look good to their bosses and will throw you under the bus if they have to in order to save themselves. Even if they gave you instructions that got you in trouble. They SHOULD be supporting you in your function as an auditor, but they'll do whatever is easiest for themselves ultimately. -on job training can be disorganized -bureaucratic culture -like many other companies, a lot of things you're expected to learn by yourself. Such as how to avoid POA delays.

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