It used to be a good place to work - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The employees are mostly hard working and know their business. Salary is middle of the road, by design. They make up with benefits, matching 401K and cash balance pension.

Cons

The company is currently down sizing 1,200 management employees in the US. Along with the downsizing they are outsourcing the IT organization. It appears as if the UK management is getting ready to sell the company in pieces.

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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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