Pros

Ski Pass, Beautiful Locations, Nice people, looks good on a resume, decent vacation time.

Cons

No growth potential, very corporate, you can not express any new ideas, micro managing, you feel you will get in trouble all the time, drama, low pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize good people when you have them.

Pros

Great outdoor benefits, great relations with fellow employees due to the love for the outdoors

Cons

Poor medical package, if you actually get offered it to you.

Advice to Senior Management

Give out a few trips to employees to other resorts.

Pros

The all mountain unlimited ski pass you receive is far and away the best reason to work for vail resort. Most of the people who work there are enjoyable to be around as well. You work at a ski resort so it is a pretty laid back work environment.

Cons

The pay is lackluster and the jobs are mostly tedious and extremely boring. The cost of living at the resort area is quite high as well. There is also very high turnover so management changes quite frequently which can be a distraction.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate your employees more

Pros

ski pass. benefits. that's about it. we don't even get good snow.

Cons

management is not open. pay is terrible. no advice or feedback from management. they give raises then take them away.

Advice to Senior Management

hahahahahaha. you think they would actually take advice?

Pros

Ski Pass enables access to 6 of North America's best resorts, most located in or very near to Summit County which makes getting there easy. Health Insurance is great if a full-time, year-round employee. For seasonal employees it is comprable. Extra free lift tickets or discounted lift tickets for friends and family are a plus, making it affordable when someone is visiting. Employee housing is available for certain positions. Personalities of employees around any of the Vail Resorts are helpful and welcoming. Employee discounts for Vail owned properties help employees afford clothes, a meal on the mountain, or general supplies. Access to resort via FREE bus system a big plus to employees and guests alike.

Cons

It is a very financially difficult area to live in. Housing is expensive and most of your money is devoted to only that. Certain positions are stressful and time consuming, preventing you from getting your ski or snowboard time in. "Hiring freezes" make id hard to obtain a job. Overtime is NOT allowed. Outside jobs will often leave you in poor working conditions. Praise from a supervisor or manager is little seen, unless you do something really off the charts that is totally unexpected. "Projects" are often handed out and expected to be completed on your own time. Calling in sick is frowned upon unless you have a doctor's note in hand the day you return, so if you can't afford the insurance you still have to pay for the bill. Parking in free lots within a reasonable distance from the lifts is not permitted. If your car breaks down they will tow it. If you park in the wrong area they will tow your car. Employee to employee interaction while on the clock often leads to rude and unacceptable behavior. Off the clock activities or behavior affect your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at all employees and departments, not just line level employees, to discover new ways to improve employee morale. Improve employee benefits to attract more dependable employees that will not leave. Turnover is depended upon to keep pay rates low. Guests really are not satisfied with their expectations displayed via marketing.

Pros

The work vs. life balance was a huge part in choosing to work for vail resorts. When I first attended my interviews/ orientation they really thrive on this. They said if your kid has a baseball game, take the time off to go. Don't make work your life, but rather enjoy life.

The benefits packaged played another huge role in my decision to work for vail resorts. Full time employees get a 6 mountain season pass for themselves and dependents, 16 $45 dollar tickets to give to friends, and 4 free tickets as well. Not a bad medical package either.

Cons

The only reason I can think of is that now the corporate office is in Broomfield, CO, and not in the mountains anymore. This is good and bad. It is good because it creates a professional and money making opportunity. It is bad because corporate doesn't have the inside on what goes on in the mountains anymore. They are too far outside our culture, and sometimes their decisions can be a little off. They can not relate to their employees as well as they could in the mountains

Our 401k was cut due to the economy, and is not being matched anymore.

Advice to Senior Management

I would give the advice of moving back to the mountains. Everything else that Senior Management does is very beneficial. I was upset when they stopped matching 401K, but I understand that it will be beneficial in the long run. It is way better than laying off 100s of employees.

Pros

Free ski pass, opportunity to live in employee housing, great co-workers and friends.

Cons

Mangement, working for a "boy's club" and the discrimination that comes with being a young woman professional. Having bosses who have no idea what they are doing.

Advice to Senior Management

Work with your employees, create more training opportunites, strive to make promotions happen for the new generation who is working hard to move up. We will all pay our dues, but false promises, and "fake" positions is no help, help boost employee moral, remember that most of these employees are the front line in direct contact with our guests who bring us business, respect us, listen to us, help us, don't lie to us or ignore us, you're getting older, we want to move up, we want to do better, we want to learn, we don't want to be ignored.

Pros

You are around happy people who are on vacation for the most part. Many of your co-workers are from other countries. You get the chance to enjoy the mountain more than most. The parties they throw for employees are pretty good. Everyone is there to have a good time and are like minded in their love of winter and good snow.

Cons

The lack of pay. The lack of any real benefits. The lack of pay. Its tough to work there year round. All the HYPE. The greed of a large corporation. Sometimes you end up working more than you are riding.

Advice to Senior Management

Hold on to those good employees, its hard to find good help in Tahoe. Quit blacking out employee passes and give out more comp passes.

Pros

You get a free pass... That's really the only reason to work there. You also get subsidized housing (if you get there early) but much of the housing is disgusting and almost unlivable. That said, you are working in a beautiful place with fun (if incompetent) people.

Feedback is direct but actual recognition comes in the from of gift certificates and du-rags.

Cons

The pay is awful. You can't get OT. Promotion is limited and based on seniority, not skill. The low level management is largely miserable and incompetent. You will not get to ski and ride nearly as much as you want. There are no opportunities for raises. There is zero flexibility in scheduling.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with enough dignity and respect to keep some of them for more than one season! Offer pay incentives. Promote talent.

If you do not treat your employees, especially your ops folks better, you will keep grinding through them and ending up with an army of new teenagers every year.

Pros

There are a number of good reasons for working at Vail resorts. There is subsidisied housing offered for employees as well as a free ski pass for the season. Vail resorts also hires a lot of seasonal workers from in and outside the United States. Therefore those of you wanting to soak up some American culture but earn a living and ski at the same time this is definately a good place to go. There are a lot of young people all there to work and play hard.

Cons

It is away from the main cities as well as the work being highly seasonal. But a great job for the young and free.

Advice to Senior Management

Follow by example! There is no point of telling people what to do if you dont do it yourself.