Good place to work, for the most part, has its quirks - Engineer Manager National Grid Employee Review

4.0
Dec 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is competitive, time off is average, benefits are generally good. Additional perks/savings provided. Generally speaking employees care about their jobs and want to do the right thing.

Cons

A lot of layers, typically poorly explained reasoning for items at senior leadership level. Incredibly difficult to get things done quick depending on the situation. Hard to progress upwards as the company seems to favor those who move around over those who become experts in the company. Need to adjust the merit increase system as those who do poorly get rewarded no different then those who should be standing out. Managers are put under a lot of stress and are not compensated differently then individual contributors at higher levels.

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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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