Genworth reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(595 total reviews)
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Thomas McInerney

75% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Genworth has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 595 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Genworth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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595 reviews
3.0
Jan 28, 2009

It was once a great business

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Quality of people; excellent compensation and benefits

Cons

HR department too involved in running the day-to-day activities of the business; dysfunctional senior leadership team.

2.0
Oct 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some very good people at the company, but many things declined when GE left the picture.

Cons

Much of senior leadership (but not necessarily the executives) is less than adequate--very insecure middle and lower senior management. Too many people leading functions they know nothing about because of the assumption that someone who can lead a finance or administrative team can lead anything. Poor knowledge in the given function leads to great insecurity for many of these leaders and makes it tougher for anyone who actually knows what they are doing. As it was with GE, Finance rules and Marketing is generally an afterthought.

1.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and incentives. Annual 40hrs VTO, 20 hrs CTO, fitness reimbursement, plus more.

Cons

Overly convoluted policies, claims, and procedures that were rarely paid out/handled correctly. This is due to claims reps and customer service reps not ever being fully equipped to perform their jobs correctly. The training and mentoring given does not (can not) cover enough. While in training you are told you’ll understand once you are “on the floor” but once on the floor, senior members of the team will tell you that you will never really get it. You are left to depending on a single person in a 15-20 team that is suppose to help. This ends up meaning you have claims to process and to figure out what to do, you have to stand in a virtual line with your questions. Turnover is extremely high and soon after becoming an employee you see why so many people leave the CSR and SCR roles. On top of not knowing how to accurately do you job, your performance is heavily measured/scored. The CEO and head HR manager knows this is an issue, their solution when asked was “AI will help”. After 1.5 years working for the company more than half my training class of 15 had already left. If you need an entry level job that pays well for relatively no experience you’ll be fooled by this one unless you are ok with not knowing what you are doing and potentially causing financial hardship for elderly people.

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