USED TO BE A GREAT COMPANY - NOT NOW - WOW - Senior Network Engineer National Grid Employee Review

2.0
18 Sept 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I spent 17 years as a network engineer for New England Electric System (NEES) I was a great place for the first 10 years until they sold out to NGRID. After a year thing started to change slowly and then very rapidly over the next 7 years with several aquisitions and the company they bought somehow was always given control..

Cons

Because of these takeovers the original company employees were stomped on and made to bow down to the companies grid bought. Worthless systems replaced fully functional production systems. Takeover after takeover they chewed up people and spit them out after long term employment. Nothing mattered but the bottom line of the business. There way of getting rid of higher priced payroll - OUTSOURCING and the elimination of the pension plan. I'm Not bitter and have moved on to much better things - these guys ruined a lot of lives for the sake of the dollar.

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1.0
30 June 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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