Octopus Energy reviews

4.8

95% would recommend to a friend

(1,631 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 1,631 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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2.0
Feb 14, 2024

Overhyped and underperforming

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Generally a lot of nice people amongst employees. The company pretends to care about employees, and occasionally follows through by offering low-level perks. Overall positive energy on the surface.

Cons

Total overhype, rose-tinting, and gaslighting. Masters at tooting their own horn. Very cult-like in the wider sense and everyone outwardly pretends everything’s amazing, but in private conversations it’s clear that everyone actually thinks it’s just an extremely disorganised company, with management who simply does not care about real results. Customer-friendly, sure, (this saves them) but the only employees who genuinely enjoy working here are the people who don’t care about having sound organisational processes and are OK with BS-ing their way through problems. I don’t know how they’re doing it, but definitely a lot of data-forgery going on to make the problems seem like less than what they are. Some back-end teams do great work, but this is not the majority and absolutely everything is Kraken-Tech dependent. Octopus Energy is basically just a customer service centre for Kraken Tech, and the data-driven sides of the business can barely move a finger without Kraken Tech’s input. In terms of salary - forget having any sort of increase from your starting base. I’ve had two role advancements with practically zero salary increase and a very sad bonus contribution. Minted but cheap company, they’d rather throw compensation at customers for shortfalls than actually sort out their processes and pay their employees properly.

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Octopus Energy Response
2y
Hey there, I'm really sorry to hear your experience hasn't been a positive one at Octopus. It feels like you have a mixture of specific issues with your role, development and salary, and also a general negative view of Octopus overall. I know this isn't reflective of how many of our team feel, but I acknowledge the strength of your feelings. On your role, development and salary, I'd encourage you to reach out to your manager or another leader at Octopus to talk through how you are feeling about this, as I'm sure they would like to help. I'm also personally happy to help - feel free to email or slack me if you'd like an informal or in confidence chat. On some of the broader issues with Octopus: - We do have a strong culture which tends towards the positive and enthusiastic - but can see that doesn't resonate well with you. - We are deliberately an agile company with few formal processes - we think that drives better outcomes for customers and the business overall but again I recognise that for some people used to more formal process, it can feel strange. - On "data forgery" - this is not something I have observed. Personally I have access to a lot of the management information and it is robust and presents a full picture of what we do well and what isn't so good. Only through that openness can we improve. I would call it out if I thought we weren't sharing data accurately and I'd be interested in examples of where you think people aren't using data robustly. Hope that is a useful response and I'm happy to speak more in person and in confidence if you would like. Joe Richardson Ops Director, Octopus Energy
3.0
Feb 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good for graduates looking for a starter job, but the career path isn't great.

Cons

Long hours and not great salaries.

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Octopus Energy Response
2y
Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback, we really do appreciate it. I can see that you're no longer working with us but I'd love to know a bit more about your experience here. I'm sorry that you didn't feel like there was a career path for you. Our business is growing very rapidly so I would hope that with that comes great opportunities for the people who are keen to progress their careers with us. If you would be up for having an informal chat about your experience working with us please do drop me an email to lynne.higgins@octoenergy.com. Best wishes, Lynne Higgins Head Of Operations Octopus Energy
3.0
Feb 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The staff and the free drinks for an hour on friday

Cons

The toxic call centre environment style

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Octopus Energy Response
2y
Hi there. I'm sorry to see that you feel this is just a job. I'm on a mission to help the world decarbonise and everyone that I know is here for the same reason. It makes Octopus an incredible exciting and motiving place to be. If something isn't right for you and you want talk, I'd love to help. You can me directly at mario.lupori@octoenergy.com or on Slack.
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