Smoke + Mirrors AVOID - Energy Specialist Octopus Energy Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Nice people - Free lunch + Breakfast - Inclusive and diverse

Cons

- Atrocious pay - Atrocious workload - No HR department - Inadequate training - Terrible customer base (people will call and threaten to kill themselves, threaten to hurt you, insult you, scream at you) - 'Family dinner' on a friday is an exercise in self pleasure for the CEO - prepare to pop champagne as half the country goes bankrupt from energy profiteering - Atrocious structure - there are no departments meaning the role is far too broad, you will be expected to solve a preposterous variety of issues and you will have incredibly inadequate time in which to solve it - there is no forwarding infrastructure for calls so prepare to be talking to an incredibly vulnerable customer and be unable to forward them to your team's vulnerability specialist - difficult issues can take months to solve as you will never be given the 4-5 hours you may need to actually fix a problem and thus they get kicked around for months as no-one wants to take responsibility and the customer grows more and more frustrated - Poor opportunities to progress - specialisms and probation take months to complete and come with pitiful pay rises - Cliquey - Inordinately stressful

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5.0
Dec 7, 2025
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Dec 13, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some members of the company are the best people you’ll ever meet.

Cons

Genuinely a complete mess. Incompetent, passive aggressive leadership that repeatedly makes both poor and confusing company decisions. I have some absolutely crazy stories from things I’ve witnessed here. There’s things that are so bizarre and dysfunctional, they belong in an alternate reality.

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