Octopus Energy reviews

4.8

95% would recommend to a friend

(1,584 total reviews)

Roberto Giner

100% approve of CEO

94% positive business outlook

Octopus Energy has an employee rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,584 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Octopus Energy employee rating is 32% above average for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jun 13, 2025

Strange

Recommend
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Pros

Very strange workplace. Everyone is the same age, everyone sleeps with each other, drinking / drugs in the office, managers get no training so are incompetent (winging it basically), lots of gossip, lunch times feel like “you can’t sit with us” meangirls scene

Cons

You are expected to have knowledge on/ work across a ridiculously huge range of departments because they have a “cutting edge” “fluid” “end to end” approach to customer service (daily tasks involve billing, refunds, industry, complaints, smart meter, smart tariffs, vulnerability, emails, phones) All for the same wage as someone who works at Pret

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Octopus Energy Response
11mo
Hello, thanks for leaving your feedback. We really do appreciate you taking the time to write this. I’m really sorry to hear you’re not enjoying your time working for us and that you’re feeling the atmosphere is not friendly. This is not what we want here at Octopus. Octopus believes in being a place that supports everyone and anyone to the best in whatever they are doing. We really do put a lot of time into working on the wellbeing of our staff. We do this because we know happy teams means happy customers and vice versa. We would love your thoughts on how we can improve this where we are missing the mark. Please do reach out to a member of the wellbeing team on site and we can work on this together. When it comes to our approach to end to end customer service, all managers including OM’s and Head of Ops, in London Ops have been energy specialists before so we really do understand. We do this because we believe our model provides the best customer service and this has been proven time and time again in our results and customer happiness surveys. Our reviews suggest customers would much prefer to speak to a friendly human that can help figure out and resolve their issue than be bounced around from department to department. We do not expect energy specialists to know everything but we do expect energy specialists to care about our customers, have basic knowledge in all areas and know where to go to solve an issue. This could be through many avenues; our internal training resources we release regularly, through your specialists on teams who have had further training in a specific area, your manager, our internal hub knowledge owl or finding a gap where there isn’t the information and highlighting it to management so we can get this info out to our staff asap. I am deeply concerned as there are some serious comments that have been stated in this feedback specifically around not feeling welcome and substances within the office. As you’re aware we do allow drinking at Family Dinner on Fridays as a space to socialise and relax with each other after a busy week. However, some of the things you have mentioned here, I want to be very clear, we simply do not tolerate here at Octopus. I do want to remind you that we do have a formal complaints procedure and you can speak to any manager to highlight any of these concerning behaviours and the appropriate action will be taken. If we don’t know, we can’t help and in regards to these comments we would need more details to be able to know the right next steps. I really would like us to discuss this feedback in more depth as we do take this feedback very seriously, including any gaps or areas for improvement for our management team. Please do reach out to myself or Sam either on slack or by email at Fay.Olner@octoenergy.com / Sam.Winter@octoenergy.com or if you don’t feel comfortable coming to either of us, you can speak to any TL/OM or Head of Operations and they will be able to discuss how we can support. Kind regards, Fay Olner, Head of Operations
5.0
Jun 4, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I love Octopus - everything about it, the people, the mission, the ever changing environment and progress. I work for a company that dreams of a better world. A company that cares about its people and its customers.

Cons

Honestly there's nothing that really comes to mind. The odd individual that I've clashed with due to a different way of working but that can be found anywhere.

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Octopus Energy Response
1y
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave your thoughts! We definitely move quickly but our core principles never change, so it's great to know this is playing out in practice. Here's to many more happy years :)
1.0
Jun 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The people there. Salary and commission was good

Cons

The management is awful and they dont know what they’re doing. They try to sack you if they dont personally like you and the sales manager will manipulate certain things to make it look like it wasn’t personal

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Octopus Energy Response
1y
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback. I’m sorry to hear that your experience with us wasn’t what you were expecting and you couldn’t find your home within the Octopus team. We take your allegation very seriously, and we would encourage you to reach out to me directly (emily.hall@octoenergy.com), or another member of the leadership team that you feel comfortable with. This is not something we are familiar with, and will be investigating further due to the serious nature I can see that you didn’t enjoy the leadership experiences you had specifically which is a shame to hear. As Octopus is a rapidly growing, fast paced environment and we love promoting from within, we have many new and emerging leaders whom we support through their journey, this can mean that not everyone's journey is the same and there are challenges with that. We’ll absolutely take your feedback onboard and look to understand how we can support our teams and learn from experiences. We are currently investing in our leadership team with support, training and upskilling so that everyone is equipped to be a great leader, no matter where they are in their journey. It’s great to see that one of the positives you mentioned are the people we have within Octopus. We are very proud of the team we have built here and so glad that it has had a lasting impact on you and your time within the team. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and thank you for your time and effort when you were with us.
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