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
2.0
Dec 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

It hugely depends why you are working for the company. If you are an individual just using the company for a ski pass and have no interest in a career, then you get what you want. Also after you have worked for the company it does stand out on a resume, a great talking point with future employers. Excellent insurance plan for full time employees.

Cons

No personality at all as a whole trickled down from upper management. As mentioned below, huge disconnect in the layers between upper management to corporate employees and then to hospitality employees on site in mountain resorts. I have worked for other corporations and this company does stand out as particularly callous and not interested in employee satisfaction. The company has the potential to be much more profitable than they currently are. Without rehashing, everything mentioned below is definitely true. You have to understand that this company is being run exactly to design. The company in reality is much smaller than it seems. Most employees are line level making $10/hr. They effectively discourage employees above line level from staying longer than 2 years. They are a machine. They own a product that sells itself and they manage it exactly like you would imagine a bunch of bankers and accountants would. They bring you in with the feeling that you are working for a unique company but once you are there they work you heavy without the payoff. The CEO of the company is a Wall Street 1%'er. He knows how to manipulate the stock price through "influence" of the instutional investors, I've seen them all getting out of their private shuttles for their "week" prior to the 3rd qtr filings. There is no way the share price should be up at $70 share, the revenue and debt do not support this. There is no light or reward at the end of the tunnel for your hard work. Your salary will never go up. There really are very few opportunities to move beyond your $30k starting salary and almost none above the $50k line. These will be filled by outside hires.

2.0
Dec 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some great people who work for Corp VR and some of those people love the environment. I didn't fit in as the corp culture took shape; other people have thrived. Just not for me.

Cons

Bloated hyper-political culture in corporate office. Micromanagement from the very top is the rule for most corp departments. One warning to potential corp employees: the only connection you will have to the end-user product is the dreams of working for a ski/resort company that you had when you applied. You're not working for a ski resort; you're working for a holding company whose only master is the value of the stock held by Vail's institutional investors. VR will short anything to improve the next Q by just a nudge.

1.0
Nov 18, 2013

No opportunities, and poor pay

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only pro is a free ski pass. To bad you wont be able to afford to ski at all 27 mountains across the globe.

Cons

They are growing to fast and forgetting about why Vail was founded. No room for advancement and poor pay in comparison to other companies. Poor policies in transferring from position to position, which you have to do since all jobs are seasonal. Even as a supervisor you will get separated from the company and loose benefits a month a year.

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