14 Oct 2025
Fil-Tec Reviews
3.9
79% would recommend to a friend
Ted Schoeck
100% approve of CEO
79% positive business outlook
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5 reviews
4.0
9 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Fil-Tec has grown a lot since it began as a small family-owned company, but the feel of the management and atmosphere of the office still has the close-knit feel of a smaller, intimate organization. The ownership is invested in each and every one of it's employees from factory floor to VP level, this comes through in conversations with them both about the mission of the company and their concern for your wellbeing outside the office. They are constantly re-evaluating their existing processes so they evolve as the company does, and looking for ways to empower existing employees to rise to newly created roles in order to implement and instantiate these processes. Co-workers were all friendly, helpful and polite. Starting salary was competitive for my industry and the company benefits are solid. Management, and I remember this from when I just started, was enthusiastic about staff development and encouraged continuing education which the company has a program to assist with. I still remember showing a development plan to the VP of Growth, him being excited for it and saying to go for it. People here are willing to open up and be people rather than just coworkers -- I had many conversations with just about everyone about all sorts of interesting, helpful things I could apply to my life.
Cons
Bear in mind these cons are for my role, others may have different experiences: Meetings are often repetitive and, in my opinion, unnecessary. The most salient example which comes to mind was having a last-minute meeting to discuss our thoughts on a meeting earlier that same day; an email chain would've sufficed. Meetings tend to veer off topic and become management making wish-lists/fantasizing about what could-be, but without generating actionables. I believe this to be good for enthusiasm but bad for time management. As a final note on the meetings: they were especially galling when the management insisting on them happening would often be late or not show up at all (because of other meetings). Certain higher-ups have a tendency to micromanage or over-involve themselves in certain departments. Never in a rude or stressful way, all of the VP-level managers were wonderful people, but in one which signals (even if it may not be true) a lack of faith in those they're micromanaging, and most importantly: does not help the work being done, if anything slowing it down. I did not receive a raise the entire time I worked there, and others I spoke with have said its been longer than that for them. I put this under cons, mainly, for those roles which can skill-up and be worth more elsewhere, but also because it is nice to be able to keep general pace with inflation. I know this is not greed, or inattentiveness, as I've said management clearly cares about staff and the starting salary was competitive -- however, if one is considering whether to stay or go, hearing that salary increases are rare is/was a bit concerning.
1.0
18 Sept 2023
One of the worst experiences I have had to date.
Anonymous employee
Former employee, less than 1 year
Smithsburg, MD
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
the best reasons for working g here are the pay, and that's where the pros end.
Cons
Co workers love drama, the older members of the management team are in over their heads and should not have the position they do, you can tell if was a reward for loyalty and not who was the best for the position. Raises are so small they're an insult, but pizza will be served. The chemicals you work with had adverse health affects over a prolonged period of time. The building is run down and dirty. The owners son is pretentious and doesn't have the first clue.
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