Description Northeast Utilities (NU) uses a little Yankee ingenuity (and a number of power generation plants) to keep its customers powered up. The largest utility in New England, NU supplies power to more than 1.9 million customers in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts through subsidiaries Connecticut Light and Power, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts Electric. The company's power grid encompasses about 3,100 circuit miles of overhead transmission lines and about 35,000 pole miles of distribution lines. NU's Yankee Gas utility provides natural gas to 200,000 customers in Connecticut. In 2010 the company offered to buy regional rival NSTAR for $4.2 billion.
Northeast Utilities has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 97 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Northeast Utilities employee rating is 40% below average for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 24% of employees would recommend working at Northeast Utilities to a friend. This is based on 97 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
67% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Northeast Utilities as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Northeast Utilities.