Seasonal tax examiner - Tax Examining Technician IRS Employee Review

2.0
4 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Regular incremental raises, pick shift you'd like to work first or second, regulate your own breaks, can have minimal interaction with others if desired, paid leave,

Cons

Can be strict depending on management, tough standards to maintain, must work 40 hrs, monotonous work that often doesn't make any sense as to what you should do, the manual for policies changes daily and employee is responsible for the changes and gets errors on record if mistakes are made, sharing desks, hostile and tense work environment with often weird peers and terrible employee accommodations for breaks especially, other departments may have better but ours are terrible, not laid back at all!

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

-variety in industries worked, -Great work to life balance

Cons

-Administration can change entire job structure overnight.

3.0
26 May 2026
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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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