Avoid the offices - Office Employee National Grid Employee Review

2.0
24 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits package is solid, but you need tenure to fully benefit. The knowledge work is straightforward, not challenging, and easily googled even in the engineering departments. By the account of my coworkers, field technician and physical engineering roles are the only desirable position in the company.

Cons

They push employees to complete these reviews, and it’s clear participation is being tracked. Leadership is indecisive, anxious, and lacks integrity, which stalls any meaningful progress unless forced by regulation. Expect to spend more time navigating politics than doing the job you were hired to do.

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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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