The National Grid application process, explained

Every stage of National Grid’s UK early-careers process, what the HireVue video interview and games involve, the September-to-February rolling cycle, and free practice — plus why the US route and NESO are different processes.

By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research

The National Grid interview rounds at a glance

  1. 1Online application — About one hour on National Grid’s careers site. Personal and education details, course and qualification, plus questions on what you know about National Grid and the role. One programme per application, one application per recruitment cycle. No CV or cover letter for early-careers development programmes.The rolling cycle and deadlines
  2. 2Stage 2 — HireVue video interview — A one-way recorded interview of competency questions "that look at different elements of your personality and workstyle", recorded whenever and wherever you like. An unlimited practice question comes first.The interview questions Practice recorded answers
  3. 3Stage 3 — HireVue game-based assessments — Short online games covering "cognitive, emotional, and social traits". National Grid publishes neither the names nor the count. Candidates describe Stages 2 and 3 as one sitting of roughly an hour.What candidates report
  4. 4Stage 4 — assessment centre (UK) — Held regularly at different UK locations, virtually or in person, with details sent closer to the date. Travel expenses are refunded and feedback is always given, including specific assessor feedback from the day.
  5. 5US route ends differently — National Grid US runs independently: application, digital interview, "profile assessments", then a final interview on Microsoft Teams. No assessment centre, and no vendor named on the US page.
Practice the National Grid batteryNumerosity (reported) Shape Dance (reported)

What games are in the National Grid assessment?

National Grid names no game. What follows is what candidates report, with the honest evidence label on each, plus the nearest practice we have. Both reported games have exact HireVue simulators on this site, which is why they are marked as such — but that describes our simulator, not the strength of the evidence that National Grid sends them. Reported counts run from two to four games, and employers configure HireVue batteries per role, so your invitation is the only thing that settles what you are actually sitting.

Practice the National Grid set

The 2 games on this page, in order, with a summary at the end. Lineup maintained from first-party candidate reports — invitations, interviews, and post-assessment feedback.

Numerosity (reported)

Closest practice only

Single source

A numerical game: you pick the numbers that produce a stated result under a given operation, against the clock. It rewards fast mental arithmetic and fast scanning rather than deep calculation — the bottleneck is usually how quickly you spot candidate pairs, not whether you can add. Our simulator runs the same format. Note the evidence: this name comes from a prep-site summary of uncited candidate reports, not from National Grid or HireVue.

Source: AptitudePrep, National Grid digital assessment (prep site)

Practice Numerosity (reported)

Shape Dance (reported)

Closest practice only

Single source

A spatial matching game: decide whether detailed shapes match once rotated. The technique that moves scores is picking one distinctive feature of the shape and tracking only that through the rotation, rather than trying to hold the whole figure in mind. Same evidence caveat as Numerosity — reported by one prep site, named by no official source.

Source: AptitudePrep, National Grid digital assessment (prep site)

Practice Shape Dance (reported)

Anything beyond those two — unknown

Category practice

No evidence found

Reported counts range from two to four games, and nothing names a third or fourth. We are deliberately not filling the gap with other HireVue games, because no source connects any of them to National Grid. If you want insurance against a longer battery, the general HireVue hub covers the formats that appear most often across employers — but that is hedging, not information about National Grid.

Source: No source names a third National Grid game; reviewed September 2026

Good to know: National Grid publishes no game names and no count, and the two names above come from a single prep site summarising uncited candidate accounts. HireVue batteries are configured per employer and per role, so the set you are sent may differ. Your invitation email is the only document that tells you what you are actually sitting — if it names the games, tell us so this page can be tightened.

Who gets the National Grid assessment?

National Grid is one of the few employers that names its assessment vendor on its own careers site. The UK early-careers how-to-apply page and the Graduates page both set out four numbered stages, and two of them link straight out to the vendor: Stage 2, the video interview, offers "Read Hire Vue's Video Interview Tips", and Stage 3, the game-based assessments, offers "Technical difficulties? Visit Hire Vue's Candidate Support Centre". That link resolves to HireVue's own support site. So HireVue is confirmed for the UK early-careers route, not inferred.

What National Grid does not publish is anything about the games themselves. Its entire description is one sentence — "a series of short online games that look at different elements of your cognitive, emotional, and social traits" — with no names, no count, and no timings. Candidates report two games, Numerosity and Shape Dance, but that naming traces to a single prep-site summary of uncited candidate accounts, and reported counts range from two to four. The strength of the platform evidence does not carry over to the game names; keep the two claims separate in your head.

Three separate organisations get confused here, and applying to the wrong one wastes preparation. National Grid UK early careers is the HireVue route described on this page. National Grid US — the Graduate Development Program and "Gridterns" internships — runs independently; National Grid’s own FAQ says the US and UK programs "currently operate independently", and the US page describes the same kind of profile assessments without naming any vendor, ending in a Microsoft Teams interview rather than an assessment centre. NESO, the National Energy System Operator, was National Grid’s Electricity System Operator until it became an independent public corporation in autumn 2024; its published journey is a CV application, a video or in-person interview with two team members, then an outcome — no games, no assessment centre, no vendor. UK Power Academy is a fourth carve-out: applications go through the IET rather than National Grid’s own form, so do not assume the HireVue stages apply.

UK Graduate Development Programme

National Grid’s Graduates page states: "18-month rotational programmes are made up of three, six-month placements, except for the Finance programme, which is three years long and consists of three, 12-month placements." Streams advertised for the 2026 intake include Power Systems Engineering, Project Development Engineering (Asset Operations), Digital and Data Analyst, Sustainability, Strategy and Regulation, Accounting and Finance, and People (HR), across UK sites including Warwick, Birmingham and Manchester. You must be in your final year of study or already graduated. This is the route where the four numbered stages — and the HireVue naming — appear.

Official source

Source: National Grid careers, Graduates (UK)

UK graduate terms as advertised for the 2026 intake

Live 2026 graduate listings quote around £36,640 plus a £2,000 joining bonus and a £2,400 completion payment, an 18-month scheme of three six-month UK placements, a minimum 2:2 degree, and — for most engineering streams — a full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between rotations. These are the advertised terms on individual vacancies, so check the posting you are applying to rather than assuming they hold across every stream.

Official source

Source: National Grid 2026 graduate listing, Power Systems Engineer (Strategic Infrastructure)

UK undergraduate programmes — industrial placements and summer internships

Industrial placements and internships are covered by the same UK early-careers how-to-apply page that sets out the application, video interview, game-based assessment and assessment centre stages, and the FAQ groups "Undergraduate programmes (Industrial Placement and Interns)" with graduates for the final-year-or-graduated eligibility rule. In practice that means placement students and interns see the same HireVue stages as graduates.

Official source

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

UK apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are one of the UK early-careers routes listed on the same how-to-apply page carrying the four stages. The FAQ notes that National Grid cannot provide visa sponsorship for apprenticeship programmes.

Official source

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

UK Power Academy — applied for via the IET, not National Grid

The FAQ states: "For Power Academy, you can apply from your first year of study and applications are submitted via the IET." Because the application runs through the Institution of Engineering and Technology rather than National Grid’s own form, the HireVue video interview and game stages described on this page should not be assumed to apply to this route.

Official source

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

US Graduate Development Program — a separate process

A year-long development program for recent college graduates in the northeast US, opening with a three-week in-person orientation covering the business, cohort and senior-leader networking and travel across the service territory, then ongoing development sessions, mentoring, a hackathon and a capstone project. Past placement areas include gas and electric engineering, procurement, finance, IT, regulation, audit, HR and operations. No assessment vendor is named anywhere on the US pages, and National Grid’s FAQ says the US and UK programs "currently operate independently".

Official source

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (US)

US "Gridterns" internships

"Gridterns" is National Grid’s US internship brand, sitting alongside Graduates in the navigation of the US early-careers site that sets out the application → digital interview → profile assessments → Microsoft Teams final interview journey. As with the US graduate program, no vendor is named on the page, so do not assume the UK HireVue configuration applies.

Official source

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (US)

NESO (National Energy System Operator) — a different organisation entirely

NESO was National Grid’s Electricity System Operator until it became an independent public corporation in autumn 2024. Its published application journey is a CV-based application, then an interview — "typically you'll have a video or in person interview with two members of the team" — then the outcome and feedback. There are no games, no assessment centre and no vendor named. If the role you applied to is a NESO role, nothing on this page about HireVue applies to you.

Official source

Source: NESO careers, application journey

Experienced hires

The FAQ says only that experienced-hire roles ask for a CV, where early-careers development programmes do not. Nothing published says whether experienced hires face a video interview or games at all. We found no evidence either way, so do not assume the four-stage early-careers process transfers to a direct-entry role.

No evidence found

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK); scope of the published guidance

How does the National Grid assessment work?

HireVue is named by National Grid itself

Official source

This is the strongest kind of vendor evidence there is: the employer’s own page naming the platform. National Grid’s UK early-careers pages link candidates to "Hire Vue's Video Interview Tips" at Stage 2 and to "Hire Vue's Candidate Support Centre" at Stage 3, and the support link resolves to HireVue’s own candidate support site. You do not have to take a prep site’s word for the platform.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

The official stage order is video interview, then games

Official source

National Grid numbers the video interview Stage 2 and the game-based assessments Stage 3, on both the how-to-apply page and the Graduates page. Several candidate accounts describe playing the games first, or completing both parts in one sitting of roughly an hour — so expect one combined HireVue session rather than two invitations weeks apart, but prepare both parts separately because they demand completely different things.

Source: National Grid careers, Graduates (UK)

What the video interview covers, in National Grid’s words

Official source

"The video interview will consist of a series of questions. You will be asked competency-based questions that look at different elements of your personality and workstyle. You'll be able to record and complete your interview anytime and anywhere." National Grid does not publish how many questions there are; candidates report somewhere between three and six, and that likely varies by programme. We have a researched question page for this stage at /hirevue/questions/national-grid.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

There is an unlimited practice question before you start

Official source

The FAQ is explicit: "You do have the opportunity to complete a practice question as many times as you want." Use it. It is the only part of the process where a retake costs you nothing, and it is where you check your framing, lighting and audio. The same FAQ recommends business casual dress, a well-lit location, and testing your microphone and camera beforehand. How many attempts you get on the real questions is not published, so do not plan around getting a second take.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

What the games are, in National Grid’s words

Official source

"Complete a series of short online games that look at different elements of your cognitive, emotional, and social traits. You will need access to a device that can connect online and be used in a quiet space." That is the entire official description. No game names, no count, no timings. The identical wording appears on the US early-careers page under the heading "Profile assessments", but the US page names no vendor.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

The game names are the weakest claim on this page

Single source

Candidates report Numerosity and Shape Dance. That naming reaches us through one prep site summarising uncited candidate reports — the candidate forums and review sites that would corroborate it could not be read directly, and the game descriptions circulating in search results are generic HireVue prep copy rather than National Grid-specific testimony. So treat this as single-source. National Grid names no game, HireVue names no game for National Grid, and reported counts run from two to four. Practising these two is a reasonable bet; assuming they are the whole battery is not.

Source: AptitudePrep, National Grid digital assessment (prep site)

Adjustments and extra time are available

Official source

The FAQ states that the tests include a practice question and that adjustments, including extra time, can be arranged. If you normally receive adjustments, ask the recruitment team before the invitation window starts rather than after.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

Overseas candidates can sit the online stages abroad

Official source

The FAQ confirms that overseas candidates can complete the application, the online tests and the video interview from abroad, but must attend the UK assessment centre in person. Plan travel around Stage 4, not around the HireVue stage.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

What the assessment centre is, and is not

Official source

National Grid commits to very little: "You will be invited to attend one of our assessment centres, where you'll experience a number of exciting activities. We will provide more details about the assessment centre closer to the time. We have prepared to hold these either virtually or in person." The FAQ adds that centres are held regularly at different UK locations, travel expenses are refunded, and feedback is always given including specific assessor feedback. Older prep-site and candidate accounts describe a two-day event at a Warwick conference venue with a case-study presentation and a group exercise; no current official page says that, at least one recent account describes a virtual centre, so do not treat that format as the current cycle’s.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

Claims that National Grid uses SHL aptitude tests are not supported

No evidence found

Two prep sites assert SHL or "CEB SHL" verbal and abstract reasoning tests for National Grid. Neither cites a source, neither mentions HireVue anywhere, and one of them was last updated in May 2024 while elsewhere on the same page conceding that National Grid uses game-based assessments. That reads as stale material rather than competing evidence, and it is contradicted by National Grid’s own current pages, which name HireVue twice. Do not spend preparation time on SHL-style aptitude tests for this process.

Source: Comparison of prep-site claims against National Grid’s current early-careers pages, September 2026

The US route uses the same words but names no vendor

Official source

The US early-careers page describes an application of about 30 minutes, a "Digital interview" you record anytime with multiple recordings allowed, "Profile assessments" using the identical cognitive-emotional-social wording, and then a final interview "held using Microsoft Teams". It never names HireVue, and National Grid states the US and UK programs operate independently. The structure is the same shape; the vendor is confirmed only for the UK.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (US)

What happens in the National Grid hiring process?

The UK early-careers process, stage by stage

National Grid numbers these stages itself on the how-to-apply and Graduates pages.

  1. 1Complete the online application form — about one hour, saveable, and you can apply for only one programme in your application. Personal and education details, course and qualification, plus what you know about National Grid and the role. No CV or cover letter for early-careers development programmes.
  2. 2Stage 2 — the HireVue video interview: a series of competency questions on your personality and work style, recorded anytime and anywhere. Take the unlimited practice question first.
  3. 3Stage 3 — HireVue game-based assessments: short online games on cognitive, emotional and social traits, in a quiet space on a device that can connect online.
  4. 4Stage 4 — the assessment centre: held regularly at different UK locations, virtually or in person, with details provided closer to the date. Travel expenses are refunded.
  5. 5Feedback is always given to assessment-centre attendees, including specific assessor feedback from the day, regardless of outcome.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

What the video interview asks about

National Grid says only "competency-based questions that look at different elements of your personality and workstyle", so this list combines its own wording with recurring candidate-reported themes. Our researched question page for this stage is at /hirevue/questions/national-grid.

  1. 1Motivation: why National Grid, and what you know about the company and the role. The official prep advice is to research the website and reflect on your own qualities and achievements.
  2. 2Working in a team, and handling conflict within a team.
  3. 3Working independently and directing your own work.
  4. 4A time you changed your course of action partway through a task.
  5. 5Setting and achieving a difficult goal.
  6. 6Building relationships and communicating with people unlike you.
  7. 7Safety — candidate reports repeatedly flag it, typically as a time you saw something unsafe and what you did. Safety is a core National Grid value, so prepare an example even though the theme is not officially published.

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (UK)

The US route: application, digital interview, profile assessments, Teams interview

National Grid’s US early careers runs independently of the UK, and ends in a live interview rather than an assessment centre.

  1. 1Apply on the US early-careers site — the page puts the form at about 30 minutes.
  2. 2Record the digital interview, which the page says you can complete anytime and with multiple recordings.
  3. 3Complete the "Profile assessments" — the same "short online games ... cognitive, emotional, and social traits" description as the UK page, but with no vendor named on the US page.
  4. 4Final interview on Microsoft Teams: "We'll ask you for specific examples of times you've demonstrated some of our core competencies. You may also be asked questions specific to the job you're applying for, such as technical questions."
  5. 5Do not assume the UK game configuration applies. National Grid’s FAQ says the US and UK programs "currently operate independently".

Source: National Grid careers, Early careers — How to apply (US)

If your role is with NESO, this is not your process

NESO — the National Energy System Operator, formerly National Grid ESO — has been an independent public corporation since autumn 2024. Its published journey is much shorter and has no assessment stage at all.

  1. 1Apply with a CV.
  2. 2Interview: "typically you'll have a video or in person interview with two members of the team".
  3. 3Outcome and feedback.
  4. 4There are no games, no assessment centre and no vendor named anywhere in NESO’s published journey. Check which organisation your vacancy actually belongs to before you prepare.

Source: NESO careers, application journey

When is the National Grid assessment?

National Grid’s UK cycle is rolling, not deadline-driven, and that is the single most useful scheduling fact on this page: vacancies close once enough applications arrive or enough offers are made, and assessment-centre dates fill up. Applying in September or October rather than January materially changes which centre dates are still available to you.

CycleApplication datesLikely assessment windowEvidence
UK recruitment cycleRolling — no fixed published deadline. Vacancies close once enough applications are received or enough offers are madeHireVue stages follow shortly after application review; assessment centres run November to AprilOfficial source

The FAQ states: "You can apply to National Grid once every recruitment cycle, which typically spans from September to February" and "Assessment centres take place from November to April. We encourage you to apply as early as possible as applications will close once the required number of offers have been made." The general careers FAQ adds that National Grid reserves the right to close jobs before the advertised closing date. Treat any date you see on a posting as a ceiling, not a plan.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

2026 intake, as advertised on live graduate vacanciesRolling: "We recruit on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close our vacancies once we have enough applications""Assessment centres will be held between November - April 2026"Official source

Two separate 2026 graduate listings — Power Systems Engineering in Manchester and Sustainability in Birmingham — carry the same November-to-April window and the same rolling-close wording, which shows the timeline is standard across streams rather than stream-specific. Both also repeat "You can only apply for one graduate opportunity during this recruitment cycle".

Source: National Grid 2026 graduate listing, Power Systems Engineer (Strategic Infrastructure)

October, November and December — campus seasonn/aOverlaps the early part of the rolling window and the first assessment-centre datesOfficial source

The FAQ: "Throughout October, November and December we will be at universities, attending careers fairs and giving presentations, in person or virtually." These events sit ahead of most assessment-centre dates, so they are useful for the motivation questions in the video interview if you catch one before you record.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

After you submit — hearing backn/aNational Grid aims to be in touch within 8 weeks of applicationOfficial source

The FAQ: "This is mostly down to you, and how quickly you complete the different stages. Once you have completed the online part of your application it will be sent to our recruitment team to review. We aim to be in touch with candidates within 8 weeks of their application." Candidate accounts describe faster turnarounds in practice after the HireVue stage, sometimes within days, but eight weeks is the only figure National Grid commits to.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

Reapplying after a rejectionNext recruitment cyclen/aOfficial source

One application per recruitment cycle, for one programme. Anyone who attends an assessment centre can request feedback regardless of outcome, "which we hope you can work on before reapplying in the next recruitment cycle". So a rejection at the HireVue stage means waiting for the next cycle rather than switching to a different stream the same year — which is a strong argument for choosing your programme carefully before you submit.

Source: National Grid early-careers FAQs (UK)

How to practice for the National Grid assessment

Spend your preparation in proportion to the evidence. The platform is confirmed, so preparing for a HireVue-style one-way video interview and a HireVue-style game battery is a safe bet. The specific games are not confirmed, so build a general HireVue baseline rather than drilling two games to exhaustion on the strength of one prep-site report.

The two parts reward completely different things. The video interview wants concise, structured competency examples delivered to a camera with no interviewer reacting to you; the games want fast, accurate reflexes under adaptive difficulty. Rehearse them in separate sessions. Our practice metrics track your own improvement; National Grid publishes no scoring model and no cutoff.

Step 1

Confirm which organisation and which country you applied to

National Grid UK early careers is the HireVue route. National Grid US runs independently and names no vendor. NESO is a separate company with a CV-and-interview process and no games. Power Academy applies via the IET. Getting this wrong is the most expensive mistake available here.

Step 2

Apply early in the rolling window

The cycle typically runs September to February with no fixed deadline, and vacancies close once enough applications or offers land. Assessment centres run November to April and fill up. September and October applications have the widest choice of dates and the least competition for them.

Step 3

Build a baseline on both reported games

One run of Numerosity and one of Shape Dance shows whether fast arithmetic or rotated-shape matching is your weaker side. Both adapt upward as you answer correctly, so a level that suddenly feels brutal usually means you are scoring well — and one mistake costs far less than panicking about it.

Step 4

Add a broader HireVue run if you have time

Reported counts go up to four games and nothing names the rest, so a single pass through the other common HireVue formats on the hub is cheap insurance. Do not mistake that for a claim about what National Grid sends.

Step 5

Use the unlimited practice question properly

National Grid confirms you can retake the practice question as many times as you want. Use it to fix framing, lighting and audio, and to hear your own pace — not just to click through. The FAQ recommends business casual, a well-lit location, and checking your microphone and camera beforehand.

Step 6

Prepare competency examples, including a safety one

Outline concise examples for teamwork and team conflict, working independently, changing course partway through a task, achieving a difficult goal, and building relationships. Add a safety example: candidate reports flag it repeatedly and safety is a core National Grid value, even though the theme is not officially published. The researched question page is at /hirevue/questions/national-grid.

Step 7

Plan for one sitting, not two

National Grid numbers the video interview Stage 2 and the games Stage 3, but candidates commonly describe completing both in a single session of around an hour. Block an uninterrupted hour in a quiet room on a laptop or desktop with notifications off, rather than assuming you can stop between the parts.

Step 8

Ask for adjustments before the invitation window

The FAQ confirms that adjustments, including extra time, can be arranged. Raise it with the recruitment team when you apply rather than when the HireVue link arrives.

National Grid assessment FAQ

Does National Grid use HireVue?

Yes, for its UK early-careers process, and this is unusually well evidenced: National Grid’s own how-to-apply and Graduates pages link candidates to "Hire Vue's Video Interview Tips" at Stage 2 and "Hire Vue's Candidate Support Centre" at Stage 3. The US early-careers route describes the same kind of digital interview and profile assessments but never names a vendor, and NESO — a separate company since autumn 2024 — publishes no assessment stage at all.

What games are in the National Grid assessment?

National Grid does not publish any game name. Its whole description is "a series of short online games that look at different elements of your cognitive, emotional, and social traits". Candidates report Numerosity and Shape Dance, but that naming traces to a single prep-site summary of uncited candidate accounts, so treat it as a reasonable bet rather than a fact.

How many games does National Grid send?

Not published. Reported counts run from two to four, and HireVue batteries are configured per employer and per role, so the number can differ between programmes. Your invitation email is the only reliable source.

Do the games come before or after the video interview?

Officially the video interview is Stage 2 and the games are Stage 3. In practice many candidates describe completing both in one sitting of roughly an hour, so plan for a single uninterrupted block rather than two separate invitations.

How many questions are in the National Grid video interview, and can I retake them?

National Grid says only "a series of questions" — candidates report roughly three to six, varying by programme. The one thing it does confirm is an unlimited practice question before you start: "You do have the opportunity to complete a practice question as many times as you want." How many attempts you get on the real questions is not published, so do not plan on a second take.

Does National Grid use SHL tests?

There is no support for that. The claim appears on two prep sites, neither of which cites a source or mentions HireVue, and one of which was last updated in May 2024 while elsewhere conceding National Grid uses game-based assessments. National Grid’s own current pages name HireVue twice. Preparing for SHL-style aptitude tests for this process would be preparing for the wrong thing.

When should I apply, and is there a deadline?

There is no fixed deadline. The FAQ says the cycle "typically spans from September to February", recruitment is rolling, and vacancies close once enough applications are received or enough offers are made. Assessment centres run November to April and fill up, so applying in September or October rather than January materially affects which dates remain.

Can I apply to more than one National Grid programme?

No. You can apply for only one programme in your application, and once per recruitment cycle. That also means a rejection at the HireVue stage means waiting for the next cycle rather than switching streams — worth knowing before you choose which programme to submit.

What is the assessment centre actually like?

National Grid commits only to "a number of exciting activities" at centres held regularly at different UK locations, virtually or in person, with details sent closer to the date. Travel expenses are refunded and feedback is always given, including specific assessor feedback. Older prep-site and candidate accounts describe a two-day format with a case-study presentation and a group exercise, but no current official page says that and at least one recent account describes a virtual centre — so do not build your preparation around that shape.

I applied in the US. Is my process the same?

Not necessarily. National Grid’s FAQ states the US and UK programs "currently operate independently". The US journey is application, digital interview, "profile assessments" — the same games wording as the UK — then a final interview on Microsoft Teams, with no assessment centre and no vendor named on the page.

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