Confused environment to work in. - Director National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Mar 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Strong competitive salary. Smart people on the teams.

Cons

Leadership is NOT in touch with the teams. Very confused strategic guidance that often is not in touch with reality or stated direction of the corporation. Sr leadership is not at all interested providing clear direction on expected work product, nor having realistic timeframes to develop work product. It is all too often hurry up and deliver in unrealistic time frames, then the work product is summarily thrown in the waste as unnecessary. If you want to work in a constant fire-drill environment this is the place.

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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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