Great People, But no room for growth, can't get out of their own way - Senior Analyst National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Jul 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The people are fantastic, mostly. friendly, smart, and supportive. Benefits are well above average, especially for maternity leave and other perks (flexible spending accounts etc). Pay is pretty good, but yearly increases are small.

Cons

Can't get out of its own way, always another reorg, leadership leaving and new people coming in and throwing out the old way of doing things before there's even momentum. Problems I saw when i came in were still the same problems years later, despite many trying to come up with and implement solutions. No room for promotion unless you go to a different dept, which why would you want to if you want to stick with your current profession/career? Better off leaving and coming back for that title change and pay raise. Depts are often too siloed, and the new regional model is only going to make it worse.

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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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