How is management perceived at Northstar California Resort?

Pros

The culture and environment within the department team were amazing. The manager was phenomenal and spent great effort in cultivating a working environment where you were excited to come to work. Focused on sustainability and allowed team members to take more responsibility and grow. Last but not least SNOWBOARDING or skiing(up to you). Great job if you are passionate about the outdoors and sustainability.

Cons

The pay and corporate management, the pay was much too low barely liveable in a resort town. There were several occasions where situations could have been handled better by corporate. Another con is verbal abuse from customers. I'd also add that the overall team was amazing but it was not uncommon to find those who did not meet the standard, however, the pay is not livable enough for many people.

Advice to Management

Continue to focus on creating a healthy positive environment for employees and they will spread it into guests' experiences. Continue to push for sustainability in all aspects. PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT, in that order.

Pros

Free pass (only has one mountain worth skiing in CA/NV; Kirkwood), food discounts, cool families in the teams program, a few cool coworkers.

Cons

The majority of the management, both senior and mid level, had nothing but the companies bottom dollar in interest. From the CEO/COO down to ski team management. I was told by a ski team manager that coaches "should not let their athletes progress too fast because then the parents would realize they needed better coaches and a better mountain", and that the goal was to keep them long enough to buy a house at northstar and lock them into the vail ecosystem. This same director drove away an alarming number of coaches, predominantly female. There's no room for misogyny in the ski industry any more. Although apparently Vail/Northstar doesn't feel the same. The bottom line 100% financially based decision making was an utter disappointment for someone who has put decades into the ski industry. The lack of livable pay or easily accessible and quality benefits for seasonal employees is pathetic. You can't survive in a ski town with what they pay, and they expect you to dedicate more time than you're paid for.

Advice to Management

Just give up. Quit. Stop trying.

Pros

The culture and environment within the department team were amazing. The manager was phenomenal and spent great effort in cultivating a working environment where you were excited to come to work. Focused on sustainability and allowed team members to take more responsibility and grow. Last but not least SNOWBOARDING or skiing(up to you). Great job if you are passionate about the outdoors and sustainability.

Cons

The pay and corporate management, the pay was much too low barely liveable in a resort town. There were several occasions where situations could have been handled better by corporate. Another con is verbal abuse from customers. I'd also add that the overall team was amazing but it was not uncommon to find those who did not meet the standard, however, the pay is not livable enough for many people.

Advice to Management

Continue to focus on creating a healthy positive environment for employees and they will spread it into guests' experiences. Continue to push for sustainability in all aspects. PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT, in that order.

Pros

Free pass and 50% off food

Cons

Very ethnocentric and xenophobic management. Slander and libel runs rampant.

Advice to Management

Look inward and practice what Vail Resorts their others ski resorts preach.

Pros

Beautiful environment with cultural significance

Cons

Mosly workers and management negligence

Advice to Management

Devotion

Pros

The chance to work with people from around the world in a beautiful environment.

Cons

Manager 1 was often high on drugs. Manager 2 promoted a colleague after sleeping with him.

Advice to Management

See above

Pros

The chance to work with people from around the world in a beautiful environment.

Cons

Manager 1 was often high on drugs. Manager 2 promoted a colleague after sleeping with him.

Advice to Management

See above

Pros

Free pass (only has one mountain worth skiing in CA/NV; Kirkwood), food discounts, cool families in the teams program, a few cool coworkers.

Cons

The majority of the management, both senior and mid level, had nothing but the companies bottom dollar in interest. From the CEO/COO down to ski team management. I was told by a ski team manager that coaches "should not let their athletes progress too fast because then the parents would realize they needed better coaches and a better mountain", and that the goal was to keep them long enough to buy a house at northstar and lock them into the vail ecosystem. This same director drove away an alarming number of coaches, predominantly female. There's no room for misogyny in the ski industry any more. Although apparently Vail/Northstar doesn't feel the same. The bottom line 100% financially based decision making was an utter disappointment for someone who has put decades into the ski industry. The lack of livable pay or easily accessible and quality benefits for seasonal employees is pathetic. You can't survive in a ski town with what they pay, and they expect you to dedicate more time than you're paid for.

Advice to Management

Just give up. Quit. Stop trying.