Family Owned - Great Environment - Recensione dipendente - Technical Sales Representative presso Fil-Tec

Good benefits. Great family. Positive outlook.

Haven't been treated wrong by this company once in 4 years.

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.

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.