Senior Analyst - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back workplace and tasks are easy. Good benefits-medical, dental, 401K, and vacation.

Cons

Incompetent leadership. Nothing is merit-based where promotions/bonuses are strictly dependent on who you friend with. Unless you have extraordinary skills in brown nosing, you are left with mediocre work responsibilities and NO career growth. And contrary to the common belief that the utility industry is synonymous with job security, there has been at least 1 massive layoffs each year since 2016. Not worth the stress.

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1.0
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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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