Vail Resorts should be your last resort - Marketing Manager Vail Resorts Employee Review

1.0
Sep 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

None. Not even the Epic Pass that is offered as a part of your compensation isn’t at its full value. There are restrictions on employee usage and its not available to use at the European resorts.

Cons

Working at Vail Resorts was the biggest career mistake of my life. This company will destroy your mental health and any semblance of a work life balance. They enforced a 3 day return to office starting in early September under the veil of “enhancing culture” but its clear to see, with the stock down 50% YoY, its an effort to liquidate/force people to quit without the bad press that comes with a corporate wide lay off. The company is entirely run top-down from Kirsten Lynch with everyone at the mercy of whatever she wants to do, which is normally something painfully outdated. Her “big win” this year was to put the Epic Pass on the mobile app. A truly groundbreaking idea for 2024. Making it even more of a joke - the Epic app doesn’t record stats correctly and is littered with bugs. The biggest red flag you need to consider before taking a job here is that a dozen or more current employees left this year without a new job, some on the exec board. The culture is that toxic and suffocating that anything, even not working during this challenging time to find a job, is a better choice.

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5.0
Apr 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fun job. Great coworkers. Great benefits including ski pass

Cons

You are expected to work holidays

2.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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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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