Interesting company, great mission, sometimes can get caught up in too many initiatives going on (need to prioritize) - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to move cross functionally for career development, ability to be part of some innovative energy actions, pay OK

Cons

Leadership needs to align on priorities, need to make sure global priorities are in line with US, need to re-look at internal successors/talent vs external in terms of pay and align closer

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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