Vail Resorts Reviews

Not family friendly AT ALL. People come back working 60+ hour weeks days after having their child. Management constantly working and expecting others to be online at all hours when you do get to go home. C-level is like a circus show. CEO terrified of CMO and they are literally canning everyone even though they can’t actually fill VP or above roles from the outside to save their lives due to a horrible culture of conforming and taking orders. People quitting left and right. Budgets so tight you can’t even go to a conference or ever take external training. FFS you can’t even take your team out to a cheap lunch without formal approval. A culture of total fear and a place that puts money far before customer experience or doing anything remotely cool from a tech perspective. Stock is tanking and with it so is the number of people getting canned out of executive anger... Ironic when everything done is initiated from orders from above. No one with their own perspective or who thrive off an intellectual challenge (verses a work life balance challenge) should ever think about working here. CMO is also a bully who can’t set direction or lead in an effective manner whatsoever.

Some managers and senior leaders do this company a huge disservice. The CMO runs the marketing team ("MSC") like the Donald Trump White House in many ways. She is overly involved in decisions well below her pay grade, contradicts people who are subject matter experts in their field, and leads with a culture of fear. Anyone who is not "in" with her is limited in their advancement, managed out, or straight up eliminated. There is a huge split, culturally and economically, between employees at Broomfield (i.e. corporate full-time, year-round) and those at the resort (front line, seasonal). Both structures have their pros and cons, but please read reviews carefully. Also, you really don't get to ski regularly unless you work at a resort. The pay is below market. This is well-documented by the VR Compensation team, and there is not a wholesale effort to raise pay or benefits.