Great company, awesome benefits - Anonymous employee Vail Resorts Employee Review

5.0
5 Apr 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Two words. Epic Pass. That is definitely the best reason to work here. Also great people.

Cons

Only con is that they don't have that many places to work, which is only a con if you want to move around and stay with the same company like I do.

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Vail Resorts Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to leave your feedback. We often here that the best perk to working in Vail Resorts is the free Epic Pass (now including Australia). We love the amount of opportunities unlimited access to our 11 North American resorts grants us. It can be challenging to find where your next step will be without direction. Some of the items that we have found helpful to broaden our internal network and potential job base is identifying a mentor that can help you see any potential career paths, as well participating in our on-site training classes, either for leadership skills or other hard skills (excel is offered at some locations) that is open to employees at every level and allows you the chance to meet people in other divisions or even at other mountains. We love that we are given the opportunity to own our personal development paths and can’t wait to see other actions come from developing career paths for our staff. Thank you for a great season, we hope that you come back or reach out to us to explore other job opportunities!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

- Most people are smart, passionate, and enjoyable to work with and be around. - Fairly frequent opportunities for development and advancement through the internal job board. - Nice perks if you're into skiing or riding.

Cons

- There's an unspoken expectation to regularly work significantly more hours because the majority of employees are very passionate about the ski and ride industry, which isn't great for work life balance. There's not much down time either; you're either hustling in season or hustling to prepare for the next season. - Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of the company. The season pass model mitigates some of the impacts, but not as much as senior leadership asserts. And, since bonuses are tied to company results, you can end up working super hard all year and still end up getting half of your bonus target due to uncontrollable weather conditions. - The culture has taken a serious hit since enterprise transformation work began. Lots of people are constantly stressed out and the atmosphere in the office is depressing. - Most of the time, it feels like senior leadership makes decisions in a vacuum without consulting any of the people that would be responsible for the downstream work associated with the decision. For example, I've seen senior leaders decide on a savings target multiple times without consulting the experts, who then have to scramble to figure out how to make it work. It creates chaos and negatively impacts morale. - This organization has a wordsmithing problem. I've never worked at a company that spends such an inordinate amount of time on the framing of a message compared to the actual substance of the message.

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