Good people, but would not recommend - Anonymous employee Vail Resorts Employee Review

3.0
Oct 30, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of genuinely great, down-to-earth people - Reasonable hours for most teams (finance tends to be the exception) - Really unique ski and outdoor perks that you won’t find at most companies - A lot of people have been here 10+ years, so some people are definitely very happy

Cons

- Unusual culture: Things feel more competitive and intense than they probably need to (potentially because there are a lot of former athletes); the company tries to seem fun and chill, but it’s incredibly reactive and simultaneously bogged down by unnecessarily formal processes - Leadership often asks for blind faith during “resource transformation” efforts (outsourcing most of HR and IT has slowed a lot of things down) - Tech and systems are highly outdated, which makes a lot of things more inefficient than they should be

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5.0
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Pros

Upper management was very helpful

Cons

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2.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

- Most people are smart, passionate, and enjoyable to work with and be around. - Fairly frequent opportunities for development and advancement through the internal job board. - Nice perks if you're into skiing or riding.

Cons

- There's an unspoken expectation to regularly work significantly more hours because the majority of employees are very passionate about the ski and ride industry, which isn't great for work life balance. There's not much down time either; you're either hustling in season or hustling to prepare for the next season. - Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of the company. The season pass model mitigates some of the impacts, but not as much as senior leadership asserts. And, since bonuses are tied to company results, you can end up working super hard all year and still end up getting half of your bonus target due to uncontrollable weather conditions. - The culture has taken a serious hit since enterprise transformation work began. Lots of people are constantly stressed out and the atmosphere in the office is depressing. - Most of the time, it feels like senior leadership makes decisions in a vacuum without consulting any of the people that would be responsible for the downstream work associated with the decision. For example, I've seen senior leaders decide on a savings target multiple times without consulting the experts, who then have to scramble to figure out how to make it work. It creates chaos and negatively impacts morale. - This organization has a wordsmithing problem. I've never worked at a company that spends such an inordinate amount of time on the framing of a message compared to the actual substance of the message.

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