New Electrical Engineering Graduate? Start your career here! - Engineering Co-Op National Grid Employee Review

4.0
Oct 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay for CO-OPs and new hires with opportunity to earn fantastic overtime wages. Relaxed environment as long as there is not a weather emergency. Engineers, even CO-OPs, are considered management and are in turn treated with a certain amount of respect from the beginning of employment. The company is an industry leader and all the equipment is state of the art. The 'Grid is definitely a company that is well funded and generous to their employees.

Cons

Weather emergencies offer great overtime wages, but being a utility company, much of the time you work until the problem is solved. 20 hour days are possible in major weather events such as snow storms. HR can be a pain to deal with and direct deposit will take months to kick in.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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