Ecotricity Reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(220 total reviews)

Dale Vince

86% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Ecotricity has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 220 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ecotricity employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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220 reviews
1.0
9 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

The job is easy enough and the company benefits are good.

Cons

The pay for this role is abysmal and highly unfair. You have to write an essay just to get a £1k per year pay rise but they’ll happily increase the pay for a new starter with no hesitation just to get people in the door. This has meant many of the new starters are being paid more than the most experienced people on the team that take on multiple extra roles. Any time this is bought up, we are shut down by management. Clearly loyalty means nothing here. Management clearly have favourites who are allowed to get away with job avoiding and one particular team lead consistently oversteps by gossiping to people on the team about other employees personal lives/issues during monthly 1 to 1s and practically bullies the people they don’t like to the point where the team has seen half the people leave in the last 12 months. People do not feel they can come forward and report these issues because they will only be treated even worse or the higher managers will just defend the team leaders bad behaviour.

2.0
8 Sept 2018

Good people, going in wrong direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly staff, collaborative approach, flexible and casual office environment.

Cons

CEO has far too much control, this company matches the definition of a company with founder’s syndrome. Appears ethical from the outside, but energy customers are overcharged to fund the CEO’s pet projects.

1.0
7 Jun 2018

Pot Kettle Black

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free gym That's literally about it

Cons

- Unapproachable, big headed, under qualified management who have no idea about basic'managing people's skills, Data Protection or Equality law. - Promotions for family members and mates of managers, or current love affairs, and no progression for good, hard working people who are not afraid to speak for themselves. - Lack of professionalism from the management- 'we are all on the same boat' is the answer to all concerns raised by the assistants. - SLA's and target drive instead of looking after your employees (who will essentially then look after your customers ) - Bullying and harassment culture for those who dare to speak out.

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