National Grid reviews

4.4

92% would recommend to a friend

(2,739 total reviews)
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Zoë Yujnovich

94% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

National Grid has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,739 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The National Grid employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Jun 26, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are lovely and have a real desire to make things happen and to change and adapt. You are able to use your initiative and work autonomously to make a difference. There are many different projects to get involved with with excellent team work. NG Gas are making a real commitment to engaging employees and skilling everyone with core capabilities that the company needs to excel. Refurbed office environments are great. It's very easy to collaborate internally and with partners. There is a very real ambition to achieve excellence in the industry which is exciting.

Cons

Lack of recognition. Lifers get away with laziness and poor discipline and a few bullies get away with poor behaviours. Salary expectations are hidden and there is no view of how to achieve full bonus potential. Managers that devote their life to the company (13 hour days + weekends), think you should do the same, and don't thank you for it even though you are going above and beyond. It can painfully slow to get things done and there is way too much red tape. Everyone wants to know everything, which slows you down (but doesn't stop you) from getting on with things.

1.0
Jun 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary's not bad, not much more than that.

Cons

Watch out, if the company can outsource you, YOUR GONE. They'll replace you with 10 offshore people that are clueless and the business and customers suffer. Just look at their SAP roll out. Mostly done by offshore people and was complete failure. They never tested the system and it went live with non productional data in the tables.

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