Great opportunities to build resume while making a living - Intern National Grid Employee Review

5.0
Jun 17, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

For an intern, who is still going to school, the company is an outstanding opportunity to gain valuable real-world work experience, while also making a decent living. I have had the opportunity to do all kinds of analyses, reports, setting of templates, doing presentations, learing of new mega valuable programs, such as SAS, learning more about Microsoft Office that you can possibly do in school or at any non-work environment, etc. It IS NOT your standard internship where you do copies in the printing room all day. It is like a real analyst job, which brings real value to your resume. Also, if you have over 91 credits the yearly salary is 37,000 (paid on hourly basis), which is more than some past-graduation jobs offer. You may also get a small annual bonus (less that 1,000 before taxes). It is also an ongoing internship, which could go for years and if you do a decent job, there is the possibily that you may be hired after you graduate.

Cons

This is a utility company and as such, working for it is not as prestigous as would be working for one of the big banks, for example.

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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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