National Grid reviews

No money to spend on badly needed infrastructure, including IT. Ancient systems (40+ years old) and no money to upgrade or improve them. Mentality & focus of the employees, esp mgmt, is not aligned with making everyday working conditions better, but rather to deliver a consistent ROE to shareholders - at the cost of thousands of employees' ability to do their job everyday. They spend inordinate amounts of money on "Safety" related ad campaigns and such, but IT systems which are decrepit, require workarounds everyday, etc...no money to replace or properly repair them. They did such an outstandingly poor job in outsourcing IT work, their employees despise IT and just find ways to work around every IT situation they are presented with. No growth opportunities. People have done the same job here for 20, 30, 40 years...and their ability to embrace change is reflected in that fact. The avg employee age across Grade Bands for the various jobs is over 50 yrs old. They struggle to get any decent young employees who have fresh ideas or vision.

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.