Poor Management, Difficult Environment to Work In - Systems Operator National Grid Employee Review

1.0
May 18, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, salary, bonus structures, etc. Company has good mission and very team-oriented environment.

Cons

Depending on where you are, management can have terrible relationship with their employees and will not give a second thought in dismissing or laying off people to be able to get a better quota or obtain their bonuses, leaving a bad impression with the workers in the environment. The environment gets very stressful as a result of this idea. A weak IT/facility engineering department for upgrading the still out-dated technology is also a factor and resources are very unorganized. Otherwise would be a good place to work and would give it higher rating if not for such factors.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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