Seemed good to start with now going like all big suppliers - Smart Meter Engineer Octopus Energy Employee Review

3.0
Mar 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good uniform, ok tools, opportunity to upskill to EV work

Cons

Once completed EV work it’s revealed it is not profitable. So have to undertake metering work also as two EV installs in 1 day is nigh on impossible, sometimes impossible to do metering work also on top of EV. Electric van in rural area not much charging options and 50kw at a maximum. Lead to believe that the role was all about customer service leaving neat and tidy installations with time factored in for this which does not seem to be the case. Exceptionally high standards of work required, safety/compliance runs the show here with unrealistic levels of neat installations which you are not given time for in your day.

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Octopus Energy Response
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Hi there, Thanks for leaving your review - receiving honest feedback allows us to constantly improve our ways of working, so it's appreciated. You are right, we do look for both high quality installs, and efficiency of work - a standard EV charger install (and we do communicate with the customer beforehand so we should in most cases know its complexity up front) takes between 2 to 4 hours - so it’s not unreasonable for two standard installations that are nearby to eachother to be completed in a day. If the job's different when you arrive (we all appreciate the frustration with a surprise lengthy cable run, for example) then we will of course rearrange other work. I appreciate you're saying you live in an area where there might be more travel and even 2 jobs a day can sometimes be difficult - genuinely very happy to have a chat directly so please do slack me (John Szymik) or my team and see how we can help.

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