Financial analyst - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Sep 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work flexibility is possible depending who your manager is. Good benefits overall. People are usually really nice and really want the company to succeed.

Cons

Finance department is horrible. Constant revolving door. Reorg after reorg after reorg. Understaffed teams, who work 2x as hard and receive recognition in the form of an e-card while their peers in other areas of the company receive promotions. No other department has such a constant expression of misery on their faces. The experience to be gained is great but that’s only because there’s so much work to be done and cross-training is virtually nonexistent for incoming employees.

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1.0
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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