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
4.0
May 29, 2013
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Pros

Had a great time, tons of ski and board benefits. Basically got to spend my days snowboarding around and making sure people were having a good time. Had great managers and loved every season I was with them.

Cons

Low pay, but you really dont take this job for the pay.

3.0
May 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Working in the mountains is as awesome as you can imagine; the folks that are here truly want to be, and it shows. The vast majority of mountain employees have passion for what they do and take pride in doing it well. The laid-back mountain vibe exists on-the-job as well. Perks abound, and benefits are great (if you are full-time/year-round). Healthy work-life balance in the mountain positions is easily achievable.

Cons

Upper management cares little about keeping good employees happy, which is reflected in the fact that compensation, across all business lines, is not commensurate with the cost of living in proximity to a ski resort. Vail has demonstrated that it happily accepts the high turnover rate of hard-working employees (which they ought to strive to retain) because people are willing to come out here and subsist on Top Ramen so they can ski 100 days in a season. Therefore, for upward mobility to occur, a current employee must move on to greener pastures, leaving a position vacant. The company is perfectly content with this arrangement; 3 years of "employee engagement" surveys have made the employees' wishes regarding compensation quite clear yet the company's response to these results is perpetual lip service. This is particularly cancerous in I.T. due to the CIO dubbing us a "high-performing" department. Meaning the company has raised the bar for greater than 3% annual raises impossibly high while increasing the workload for all.

4.0
May 22, 2013

Lift Operator

Recommend
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Pros

Living and working in the mountains, laid back work environment, 4 day weeks, ski bum lifestyle, very straight forward, fun and active job, working outside and getting paid to exercise.

Cons

waking up early (duh) , kids that barely got high school degrees thought they were god's gift to the world because they worked there a little longer than you, pay sucked (as to be expected made $9.25), huge array of employees - some were awesome, some sucked, most were in between

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