Not For Everyone - Tax Examiner I IRS Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2023
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Pros

Benefits are very good. Paid Personal & Sick Leave can be very helpful if managed.

Cons

Official Training, as experienced, is... awful. I don't use that word lightly. This does not mean you cannot do well. It means that often, your real training & understanding of how to successfully perform your duties will come from some combination of active networking with co-workers willing to assist, effective note-taking, successfully grooming an Advisor/Mentor and... Pure Luck. After a year, I've yet to personally experience or hear of ANY co-worker's personal experience of official training that was not some combination of awful, bad, complete waste of time, ineffective, confusing or simply did not prepare for or apply to, the subject matter being trained on. How consistently & universally bad the Training has been in nearly everyone's experience is surreal.

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5.0
27 June 2026
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Pros

-Excellent training -Hybrid work flexibility -Great Benefits (Student loan credits)

Cons

-Keeping your job dependent on current administration -Constant IT/onboarding issues -Quality of life largely dependent on manager

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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