Ghosted by Hiring Manager After Interview - Operations Clerk National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Jul 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

This review is meant to warn other candidates; apparently the hiring manager has no issues with ghosting potential candidates after interviewing them in person. After my interview, which seemed like it went very well, the HM let me know they’d be in touch. I waited for a phone call for a few weeks and did reached out to them, but was ignored. It’s a shame that this is standard practice now, to just ghost candidates without a second thought. A brief automated rejection email would’ve more than sufficed. It takes time to complete assessments, prepare for the interviews, and drive to the interview and spend time answering questions. So one would at least think that companies like National Grid would have at least the basic human courtesy to let you know if they’ve moved on. Instead they see nothing wrong with leaving you in limbo. Please do better.

Cons

See Pros section, management ghosts

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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