Octopus Energy reviews

A few months ago you couldn't find a single engineer who had anything negative to say about working for octopus, unfortunately the changes in the past couple of months have completely changed this. Most engineers are very experienced in the industry and joined octopus on a much lower salary as a non micromanaged work style and comfortable work load was the benefit. Now you are expected to do 5,6,7, jobs a day to the highest standard of install in the industry, start and finish times being scrutinised, no time allowance in day to charge and sort stock. A very small asset bonus is paid from the 7th meter (or the overtime hours if gone over shift you don't get both! Ev upskilling promised to all with with a bug fan fare this been put on hold until further notice. Honestly burn out and stress is very common now when talking between engineers, it's such a shame as it really was faultless prior to this, you had a skip in your step each day now its dread looking at what work you have the next day.

Not as sold. When I first started was told 3 metering jobs per day or 1 EV. within a week of being qualified in EV they were pushing for 2 a day. The whole point I joined was to be able to take my time and produce the best installs and focus on customer service. for the CEO of OES to think a EV install takes 2-4 hours is absolute joke and shows how far out of touch he is with the company would quite happily take him out in Edinburgh with me for a day show him whats involved in a install not to mention whats expected on the certs , where im suposed to find time for bybox, time to get to our electric supplier the list goes on. OES is one of the lowest paid metering companys with no uplift for doing EV and tbh my life was much easier working for a sub contractor. Please avoid