Vail Resorts reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(2,780 total reviews)
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Rob Katz

36% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Vail Resorts has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,780 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
3.0
Oct 6, 2015

Meh

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Pros

I was a full time ski instructor at Vail for 5 years after college. Having the opportunity to work on a world class mountain with great colleagues, facilities, and clients was in many ways one of the more rewarding experiences of my life. . . And it set me up with the communications skills needed for current corporate job.

Cons

Vail Corporate is the ski industry equivalent of Voldemort . . . Seriously, they are that terrible. Corporate cares very very little about mountain employees including anything related to compensation, benefits, managers, and retainment.

3.0
Jul 16, 2015

Senior Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A ton of rewarding experiences and connections for a lifetime. You'll get to do great things in your career at Vail Resorts and can take that experience anywhere. The environment allows for re-imagination and forward thinking and employees are encouraged to take their career development into their own hands.

Cons

While you can do anything you put your mind to at Vail Resorts, there are not a lot of promotions at the mid-managment level. There are a ton at entry-level to mid-managment jumps. It is hard to move upward into a true leadership role, unless you have put in a lot of years or come into the company from the outside. There is also a competitive attitude across employees; so you have to be up for a pretty intense environment.

2.0
Jul 9, 2015

Senior Coordinator

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free ski pass, some discounts at retail stores and restaurants - though very minimal, like-minded coworkers, living in the mountains

Cons

Basically everything you could imagine. The pay is awful, even if you're not a front line employee. The annual merit increase is practically nothing, but they still throw it in your face like they're really helping you out - a 19 cent increase is NOT going to help anyone in the costly ski towns that Vail operates in. There is literally no room for growth, even though they tell you to "hang on! opportunity is steps away" Well, after 2 years of working there, I went absolutely no where - despite the extremely hard work I put in, the long nights of working and not making overtime because my supervisor had to cover themselves from corporate. Taking on mass amounts of extra work because people drop like flies, so their work gets spread out amongst the few in the department, though, again, there is no compensation or acknowledgement. The CEO does a GREAT job at raking in the cream of the crop money from the stocks. Not to mention, he and the entire executive team have the "better than thou" mentality - which spreads down to the directors and execs at the various resorts.

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