Vail Resorts reviews

Unless you are in a senior position, pay is about 30% below market across the board. Senior teams are mostly interested in looking good. Not a lot of interest in developing lower level employees. Lots of not very talented people in high positions while talented people don't advance, staying stuck lower positions. Most of the culture that's promoted is a facade.

-Don't expect to be moved up based on merit alone. Strong tendency for favoritism in making promotion and hiring decisions. -Accounting process for the Revenue Audit department is outdated. -Poor training for a job requiring high volume in the peak season. -Pay does not even come close to matching what a revenue auditor should make given the professional capacity and expectations of the position. Vail's management has a similar attitude towards pay for their resort-based employees as well which nearly led to a strike at a couple of the resorts at the end of the 2015-2016 season. -Executive management is barely visible and clearly disinterested in the well being of all employees at the company. CEO is a former Wall Streeter and acts as such. -Overall this is an "okay" place to get your feet wet but for your own sake don't expect to stay there for more than a year. Get your experience working for a large and well-branded company and leverage it to transition to a better company with more opportunity. -Industry is highly cyclical and very sensitive to economic contraction, Vail is no exception and may have even more risk considering the high concentration of competing resort acquisitions in the United States. The company's future outlook will be heavily dependent on the state of the economy. If it stays strong, then it will continue to improve until the next economic contraction takes place.