Flexible but doesn't pay well. - Lead Analyst National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Mar 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule (most people arrive to work early 7am or so and then leave early by 4pm or so). Many people work from home one day each week. Employees are nice and down-to-earth.

Cons

Extremely difficult to get promoted or advance your career. Employees aren't valued. Revolving door of upper management & big severance packages these folks. Constantly throwing away lots of money (to expensive consultants) to fix simple issues that could be handled (successfully) by employees; the fixes are never implemented well and lead to more issues. Always cutting costs. Have had a 0% raise twice in the last eight years. Bonus structure continues to change resulting in smaller checks each year. The Finance Organization just did a mass demotion (employees who were Directors are now Managers, Managers are now Lead Analysts, and Lead Analysts are now Senior Analysts). Unclear why people were demoted.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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