Vail Resorts reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(2,779 total reviews)
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Rob Katz

37% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Vail Resorts has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,779 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vail Resorts employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Artes y entretenimiento industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
May 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Senior management is strong, open, and positive. Individual contributors are generally strong, but often grossly over worked. Do more and more with less and less.

Cons

Older employees beware: common bias against older people - in one department, one three-month period, three solid performing people near 60 were forced out. Middle management (Sr. Manager, Director and VP) don't walk the talk (say one thing, but do another). hyper competitive, extremely afraid of the next level up, try to cover up their short comings with BS or blaming staff, etc.

2.0
Nov 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance Interesting topic

Cons

Extremely toxic culture - "in" vs out crowd; people try to start drama and poke holes in things to add value when they don't know how to improve something; people can be very fake; people will gossip to try to bring people they don't like down Little room for advancement Adverse to trying new things - company's marketing sophistication feels like its a decade behind where it should be VPs micromanage *everything* - you have no real control over the vision of projects; if you don't do something exactly how they or a Senior Director wanted, it's considered to be wrong Low pay for the industry. They really milk a $1k ski pass for about $5k-$10k in salary. No 401k match until 1 year in is insulting

1.0
Apr 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pro list is very short. The people you work with do care about you, but anything above an individual contributor, they do not.

Cons

Now here is the LONG list. I worked with both IT and Marketing. And neither had the leadership to make anything worth while or lasting. They always wanted the cheapest and quickest way to fix something. But if something would take 10 hours to fix fully, but only 8 hours for a band aid solution they would do the 8 hours and then never document how anything was done. So when it would break again in 2 months they would need to spend another 8 hours on it. The C level leadership talks a big game about inclusion and promotion with in the company, but when a person would want to move into something new it was either to big of a move for them or it was because the teams were to small to promote. I was in a group that saw NO growth with so many promises of expanding. While other teams brought in new head count we were never allowed to grow or expand. So many teams would be like it is not my issue and pass it on, no one ever helped anyone else out with anything. They were very Siloed and no talk between teams. Management who did not understand the systems we had in place would make recommendations about what could or could not be done. You are expected to work long hours and on weekends with no compensation or regards for the 40 hour work week. Work life balance is non existence there. You have to work on silly presentations to appease the Sr level managers to show that you are loyal to the company. Everyone has to listen to the CEO's Podcast as you will be asked questions about it meetings. You must follow the CEO blindly and hope they are making the right choices.

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