Secure job with good benefits, but toxic culture - Finance National Grid Employee Review

2.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

* secure job * good benefits

Cons

* unpaid/unTOILed overtime (and lots of it) * work/life balance is something that sounds good on corporate brochures but does not translate to daily working life * uncaring managers & toxic work culture * last minute urgent requests/demands/changes that keep you in stress constantly * you will only move up if you play the corporate politics game and rub shoulders with the right people

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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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