The Best Company and Graduate Scheme to Start Your Career - Project Development Engineer National Grid Employee Review

5.0
Sep 16, 2025
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Pros

NG is a great organisation—one I didn’t know much about before applying. However, after working here for a year, I can confidently say it’s the best place I could have started my career. The Graduate Scheme was excellent, offering a wealth of training, support, guidance, and learning opportunities—both within your team and business unit, and beyond, through placements and simply by reaching out. Most people here are always keen to help, are kind, and are focused on delivering a net zero future for the UK and our customers. NG is also a considerate organisation that cares about your personal values and goals, and encourages you to be your authentic self in the workplace. You are treated well, paid well, trained well, and given ample opportunity to demonstrate your potential and achieve the growth you aspire to in your career. If I had to choose one company to work for throughout my life, it would definitely be NG—I’d never want to leave. There’s no reason to, and many reasons to stay and serve for years. I’ve tried to capture some of those reasons in this review, though there are many more I couldn’t fit in. If you’re looking to start your career, or want to work in an organisation that values both your personal and professional life, apply and become part of NG. You’ll live well, earn well, and thrive. Good luck!

Cons

None that I can think of—I've had a very positive experience so far.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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