Supportive environment with strong growth potential, but innovation is lagging - Lead Analyst National Grid Employee Review

4.0
Sep 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- The company genuinely supports employee growth through professional development opportunities, internal mobility, and leadership encouragement. - Management is approachable and invested in helping team members succeed. - Competitive benefits package including health coverage, retirement plans, and generous PTO. - Hybrid work model offers flexibility and promotes a healthy work-life balance (if you force yourself to "unplug" off-hours). - Strong emphasis on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork, which creates space for learning and career advancement.

Cons

- The company is slow to innovate, relying on outdated systems and processes that can hinder efficiency and adaptability. - Pay structures are inconsistent, particularly between operations and non-operations roles, which can lead to frustration and perceived inequity. - Communication across teams/functions is often fragmented, making cross-functional collaboration more difficult than it should be. - While there is a push for in-office presence, it doesn’t always translate into meaningful collaboration, which can make the requirement feel unnecessary.

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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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