Poor Management Combined with Old Boy Mentality - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

1.0
May 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unfortunately there are no real pros until you hit mid management, at which point stock and profit sharing become part of your package. Until then There are no "pros" to working at National Grid USA.

Cons

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.

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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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