Still good, but used to be better. - Engineer National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Jun 29, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Generally interesting work. Wide variety of career paths and plenty of opportunity to move between different areas of business should you wish to. Although notably eroded over the last decade or so, pay and benefits are still competitive. Company has a commendably positive attitude toward health and safety.

Cons

The aforementioned gradual erosion of pay, benefits and conditions. Implementation of "performance related pay" has been a disaster; it's been (incorrectly) used as a penny-pinching tool rather than as an incentive. HR are becoming more and more aggressive in their practises. Latest initiative is "performance excellence", brought in at huge cost both in consultancy from Unipart and in working time diverted away from core tasks.

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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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