Good Place to work - Information Technology National Grid Employee Review

4.0
Nov 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Lot of great people working at grid. Overall a decent place to work. Pros are the flexibility you get working here with wfh and good management team. The CTO is a great guy and he has picked a good team under him that is making some great progress in dropping tech debt and bringing us into the future. Still a good amount of outsourcing but we are making steady progress in dropping it down to a reasonable level.

Cons

Only downside in the company is the constant obsession with “going green” and diversity hiring policies …. Let’s focus on keeping costs down for our customers and the grid up and running through new technology and the leave the silly carbon footprint conversations and excessive diversity quotas to the political hacks.

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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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