National Grid reviews

Pay is significantly lower than private industry market level for most employees, speaking for engineers, analysts, project managers, and communications. The company goes through a "purge" roughly every four years at this point, and lays off a large portion of the employees. Upper management has a very one way street approach to communication, with the information that is filtered down abstract, non-committal, and usually only involving how poor performance has been.

National Grid is a very frustrating place to work for anyone who has been there for a while. Constant churn of leadership and a trend to fill leadership positions with people who do not know the fundamentals of the business. The company has a hard time getting basic work done while new executives try to build their reputations with new "innovative" ideas. Innovation is great, but you still need to keep the shop open, the lights on, and the gas flowing. Seems we can't do that anymore. Nobody is going to get rewarded for doing the core business well and efficiently. I don't think leadership could even recognize it when it happens.