Toxic place full of bullies and foreigners. Insane workload, Go elsewhere - Power Systems Engineer National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Sep 19, 2025
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Pros

Initially loads of free training, very high profile projects, feeling you are at the centre of a very large industry. Some pride however this quickly falls when you have to deal with the utter toxic managers they have there.

Cons

Where to start. Onboarding is a mess, lots of software to install, no central place to locate information, it's all over the place. People are vague most of the time, very much a sink or swim culture. Nigel Farage would hate this place - staffed full of foreigners to the point you feel like a minority in your own country. Plus relentless drive to cut costs, usually cheap graduates no experienced hires. There is a blame culture, insane workload where you have 5-20 tasks simultaneously. Started well with excellent supportive boss, now have an absolute toxic boss who is a bully, harasses and belittles you. Feels very corporate, endless meetings, many people have been here years, needs a good clear out. Endless meetings and distractions, a very inefficient design review process with up to 80 engineers in one meeting debating your project, risk adverse to the max. DEI is all lip service, Too much cheap labour (foreigners/grads), not a place to develop your career and earn more than £70k.

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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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