If you want to keep your sanity, don't take a job here - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

2.0
Jul 10, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not much anymore. It used to be a great company to work for until they moved their headquarters to Waltham. I worked for 25 years and it was great, the last two years before I quit were horrible. Good pay if you've worked there a long time

Cons

Treated like you are a child by supervisors. Ridiculous codes to enter to account for every second that you have to be away from your desk which is highly discouraged anyways. Forget about talking to your fellow employees, if you have a conversation for more than 1 minute even if its about work, the supervisor is right there to ask if there is a problem. Everything you do is monitored which doesn't lead to good moral. Very little positive feedback, all you get is complaints about how much more you should be doing even though you are now doing the work three people used to do since half your department has either taken other jobs or quit. The pay is terrible for a new hire. During the last two years of my career I felt like I worked in a sweatshop.

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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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