National Grid - Analyst National Grid Employee Review

4.0
14 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My experience has been largely positive. Very supportive and flexible management who help me maintain a good work/life balance. This is especially great since I'm a mother with small children. Decent maternity leave benefits, as far as the US goes. I've found that people really want to do right by our customers and go about their work in an ethical way. The people I've worked with have been great! There are a lot of different things going on with the company, so you can have a broad range of experiences and work with a broad range of people.

Cons

Really large, old company, which means a certain amount of red tape and dysfunction. It can be really frustrating trying to change processes and update systems. Processes are often different depending on who you talk to, which can be particularly frustrating with HR questions. It's difficult to move up in the company. The performance review system is good in theory, but doesn't seem to really work in practice and often ends up feeling unfair. It takes a long time for people to be on-boarded.

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1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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