Greatful for the experience but happy to move on - Permit Coordinator National Grid Employee Review

4.0
28 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Happy with pay and benefits -Exposure to challenging large scale capital projects -Enjoyed collaborating with many other departments -Lots of smart, helpful, and diverse coworkers -Volunteer and development opportunities available -Work life balance such as generous parental bonding leave -Working in and with many diverse communities -Opportunity to work on stretch projects and join committees to help improve the business

Cons

-Much different organization than what I signed up for, helped grow, and enjoyed years prior -Nearly constant reorganization of structure and frequent turnover in leadership roles -Distrust in most of the leadership I’d reported to -Prides themselves on being a top tier ethical company, but did not feel supported (or in some cases even acknowledged) by the ethics team in my experience;; nepotism and favoritism is frequently noted. -I was let go suspiciously soon after returning from my medical leave with close to no explanation, no direction on returning company assets etc, and no exit interview. (Sadly, I was somewhat relieved because my experience had become so negative especially with my line manager) -Poor morale amongst the department. Little to no team building practices -Received almost no training or guidelines for a role that I was entirely responsible for -Job postings do not accurately depict the roles -No progression for my role established -In theory there is ample opportunity to move around, but I personally did not feel like I could spend a significant part of my career there (even if having the best experience) -HR appears to be there to serve management and not employees -Large gap between highly experienced, long time employees and inexperienced new employees

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1.0
30 Jun 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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