Vail Resorts Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Vail Resorts full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Working outdoors, free skiing, great co-workers and four day work week.

Cons – Working all major holidays during winter. Cost of living.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Vail Resorts part-time for less than a year

Pros – Managers are fair to their employees. You get a free ski pass. They offer opportunities to advance in the company.

Cons – Pay isn't the best, but what can you expect. It's seasonal work.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Vail Resorts full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Outside. Mountain views , a lift pass discount in company restaurant s, meeting people from around the world,,see how the other half live. Or that might be a con

Cons – Poor pay. Expensive living environment in the mountains did I say poor pay.... Am sold for $775. My take home $110. Before tax.....and there are others that take home less!!!, around $75.make you have savings before you come to work
Seeing how the other half live....and learning how they got there!,

Advice to Senior Management – Get into the real world...hire people based on skill , ..review your management at all levels,
Try to live on the lowest wage ....

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Vail Resorts full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free Ski passes! Good benefits and tons of advancement opportunities. The company provides lots of incentives to do great and give back to the community.

Cons – Lots of turnover, hard to keep up when down a person.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Vail Resorts full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Season Pass to all Vail-owned resorts, development and promotion opportunites, living and working in beautiful resort areas

Cons – Reputed to have lower salary ranges for those working at resorts in the mountains. Corporate 'red tape' when working through certain processes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Vail Resorts full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Professional & Fun
Great working conditions
Mountains, Skiing, Boarding & Biking
Really gender blind

Cons – Overcome by too much snow in 2008!

Advice to Senior Management – Deliver the Magic

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Vail Resorts full-time for more than a year

Pros – -I'm paid to be on skis at a renowned mountain.

-The majority of people in my department are responsible, loyal, friendly and driven. I'm proud to be a part of the team.

-My immediate supervisor is refreshingly grounded and qualified for his position; he genuinely cares about his employees and pushes to implement ideas brought forth by us.

-The department we coordinate with is composed of serious professionals who (mostly) appreciate the work we do for them.

-Good people can be found among every other on-mountain department: food and beverage, security, lift operations, mountain hosts and ski school.

Cons – Our mountain reeks of corporate inefficiency. Disorganization, unfair pay, maddening bureaucracy, unethical behavior, high turnover and pathetic hiring standards degrade the work environment as well as the product we're pushing at a laughably high price.

The department I work for is plagued by illogical protocol mandates delegated by distant office-dwellers that severely limit our functionality and overall effectiveness. Furthermore, the vast majority of input from us - the people on the ground every day - goes ignored beyond our supervisor and the lead of the department with which we coordinate, resulting in failed and/or stupid practices being kept in place.

For what we do, our compensation is insulting. Unfortunately, I don't imagine this will ever change, as Vail has demonstrated that it fully embraces the notion that employees are dispensable and thus can be paid only enough to survive: a policy that allows for irresponsible burnouts and foreign man-children from wealthy families to be found all over the mountain. Stemming from this indifference is perpetual instability within most on-mountain departments which causes confusion, inefficiency, and substandard results; however, upper management can't seem to identify the relationship between constant turnover and sub-par numbers. To them, we're simply not trying hard enough.

Advice to Senior Management – Start over.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Vail Resorts full-time for more than a year

Pros – best. skiing. ever. 4 weeks vacation and the benefits (at the time but now curtailed) were pretty awesome. best run ski management company in the country (of course, the bar is pretty low in the ski industry).

Cons – way underpaid and the culture became bland when senior management moved the company from Avon to Broomfield. that management attitude might have boosted the stock, but for employees it is so unbelievably demoralizing. very little opportunity growth.

Advice to Senior Management – your employees are there because they enjoy the life but they would also need a career. make an extra effort to retain the quality ones. you can't retain them if you have the "it's the skiing so we're going to take advantage of you and your passions" attitude.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Vail Resorts full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great environment to work in

Cons – seasonal, sometimes you have to move for work

Advice to Senior Management – Keep Focusing on the Client

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Vail Resorts full-time for more than a year

Pros – The job is very fun and the people who you work with directly are great.

Cons – Corporate policy and communication are poor. They repress individuality fairly heavily and the company is slow to adopt more modern standards.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend