Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Energy & Climate

WEBSITE

http://www.instagrid.co/

About the company

Instagrid makes portable, battery-based power units designed to replace fuel generators on sites where you need serious power without noise or fumes. The company sells products like Instagrid ONE, Instagrid GO, and Instagrid LINK, aimed at sectors such as construction, film and media, events, and emergency services. Instagrid describes the mission as bringing “pure instant power” while reducing emissions, and the company is listed publicly as B Corp-certified. Hiring is split across commercial teams in multiple countries and engineering operations anchored in Germany.

Locations and presence

Instagrid lists Ludwigsburg (Germany) as headquarters, with additional listed locations including London, Paris, and Albany (US). Current openings also show go-to-market hiring across places like the UK, Spain, and Australia, alongside Germany-based engineering roles.

Palpable Score

61.3

/ 100

Instagrid is accessible to early-career candidates mainly through paid working-student routes, plus a visible, benefits-heavy setup that suggests stable employment fundamentals once hired. The main limiter is volume and outcomes: there are not many 0–3 year full-time roles visible at once, and public evidence of junior progression is thin beyond reviews and a small number of candidate-experience reports.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

11.3

/ 20

The company is hiring a Working Student (Mechanics/Design – Portable Battery Development), which is a direct early-career entry point with real product exposure.
Instagrid’s current open roles skew toward experienced commercial and specialist positions (account executives, key account managers, business development managers, customer success managers).
The company offers an “always looking for talent” route, but that is less reliable than repeat, clearly junior 0–3 year hiring.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.5

/ 20

The company runs applications through a structured careers portal with consistent required fields and role-specific screening questions.
Instagrid has public candidate reports describing multi-stage interviews with presentations, including at least one account where follow-up slipped after later stages.
The company publishes concrete role scope and requirements on postings like Working Student (Mechanics/Design) and Mechanical Engineer, which reduces ambiguity for applicants.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.5

/ 20

The company frames the Working Student role around hands-on learning in early-phase product development, combining workshop work, rapid prototyping, and CAD design studies.
Instagrid lists “skill development” and flexible work options as part of what employees can expect, but role pages don’t spell out onboarding, shadowing, or 1:1 cadence.
The company’s roles emphasise cross-functional collaboration (for example, mechanics working from concept through prototype and testing), which often creates strong on-the-job learning loops for juniors.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company publishes an hourly pay range for the Working Student (Mechanics/Design) role (€20–€22/hour), which is rare clarity for early-career applicants.
Instagrid offers a strong stability bundle across multiple roles, including 30 vacation days plus special leave, commuting support, and an Urban Sports Club subsidy.
The company does not publish salary ranges for most full-time roles, so early-career candidates moving beyond student roles have limited pay transparency.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company has a meaningful set of anonymous employee reviews with strong headline sentiment (high overall rating and recommendation rate), but the sample size is still modest for proving early-career outcomes.
Instagrid’s public company profile shows a 200+ employee scale and multiple locations, but does not provide measurable early-career outcomes like promotion timing, retention, or student-to-full-time conversion rates.
The company has at least one publicly visible working-student review describing supportive management and a strong culture, but that doesn’t confirm repeat progression patterns across teams.