Intrawest Reviews

Pros

Company is on the mend. The organization is much more streamlined, organized and efficient.
New corporate headquarters are beautiful and centrally located.

Cons

The culture is much more corporate than it was, which has eliminated. The motto was "We Work to Play", but that's no longer the case. Perks have been significantly eliminated.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication is key; let your employees know what's going on in a more timely manner.
Bring back some more of the "fun". This is a company that manages resorts!

Pros

A great company to work for when they were still doing business. Seems no longer the case

Cons

The company didn't do well recently and doesn't seem to recover. A good product but probably a bad strategy.

Pros

Good working environment; good culture but used to be much better; nice work/life balance; good centural location; pretty decent benifits.

Cons

the pay scale tended to be on the lower than average level; lots of uncertainty over the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management

The senior management got pretty aloof over the past few years, due to financial uncertainty. It seemed that they cared about employees in general.

Pros

work/life balance, Relaxed, Great activerties, Long termers earn decent wage

Cons

Seasonal, Lack of real organisation, self inflated egos and need of actual business managers not just good skiers to run a business

Advice to Senior Management

Get some professions in to run a fairly large business, If you want monkeys to do the job keep paying peanuts. The ski school really is in a pretty poor state, disorganised, lacking any real leadership or actual stratergy. make it a place that people are proud to work at. Make it a place where it is hard to get a job and hard to keep your job. There is to many people who do a very poor job, unprofessional, turn up looking terrible, dont perform or even care but are continually rehired, not pulled into line ect because of the believe that we are the best, garbage really, we charge the most and are the biggest, very different from the best.

Pros

free place to stay while i work there

Cons

i did not get paid

Advice to Senior Management

pay people wat they are worth

Pros

close to home
good reputation
good career opportunity at the time

Cons

decision making process sometimes slow

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

none to my knowledge only benifet is a ski pass for your self , a spouce or 1 kid after 2nd year , third famly pass after 3 years

Cons

always given more jobs to do until you fail , then they higher less experienced people at a lower wage to replace you

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of management that throw good employees under the bus , to save their own butts because they are incompetent

Pros

Friendly, professional office environment
Great medical/dental benefits package
Good recognization for hard work
Great perks

Cons

Pay/salary
Career growth minimal due to recession
Future of the company unknown

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize that the remaining employees are working extremely hard to keep the company afloat, while minimal to no recognition (during this hardship) is being offered from the leadership teams.

Pros

At one point it was a good Company to work for but after it was bought out by Forrest things went down hill.

Cons

As the Intrawest sold off Copper Mtn Resort good team members were cast off and the poor team members were were not let go, it seemed that all the choices to let people go were made by how much they made and not by there successes.

Advice to Senior Management

You let the wrong people go and kept the wrong ones, it's more that how much someones makes.

Pros

Great people, great product, strong culture

Cons

Very heavy overhead, corporate doesnt take a view with the guests or the staff in mind

Advice to Senior Management

Stay in touch with the consumer