Good place to work - Anonymous employee Genworth Employee Review

4.0
Jul 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people. Great place to work. I believe that leadership does a good job hiring the right employees, with the right skill set, and provides the best training to allow them to succeed. Work/life balance is a positive and the salaries are very competitive for the Richmond, VA. market. I spent a little less than a decade with Genworth and can say that even in the down times when the company was forced to layoff associates, they handled it with class.

Cons

The business environment since 2008 has never really allowed all units of the company to take off at once. First it was USMI, then Variable Annuities, then the Australian IPO and finally Long-Term Care. Senior leaders are constantly being forced to play reactive to the latest problem instead of discovering ways create innovative products that solve the future needs of its clients.

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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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