Great Benefits. Mediocre Talent. - Resource Coordinator National Grid Employee Review

3.0
28 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, especially the peripheral benefits Depending on your role, you could have a great work-life-balance Low Bar for success (see also in cons) Decent Salary & annual bonus Large and stable orgnization Great employee stock purchase program

Cons

Low bars for success Silo working structure Mediocrity is rampant Management fails to recognize where skills are misaligned Many excuses made to suppress bonuses/salaries A lot of ego in management Many long-timers not interested in moderation, change or efficiency improvement Too much too down management in many areas So much wasted money Lack of power for decision making

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1.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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