Tag: employment

Vail Resorts company reviews – Part-IV

“Terrible and Misled.”

Underpay, Complete incompetency, perverse incentives, fake “leadership” culture, refuses to learn from an astronomical turnover rate.

Advice to Management:

Hire better people and incentivize them to stay. Try to avoid a complete reorg and layoff EVERY year.

Marketing Manager in South Lake Tahoe, CA (via Glassdoor)

“It’s bot a career — it’s a job.”

The company preaches core values that are not actually applied within the company. We talk about innovation but nobody wants to hear about changing anything and there are many bullies and blowhards that work for this company.

Advice to Management:

Treat your frontline people with respect. Don’t just play lip service and put things out in the media of you being such a great employer when you have massive turnover constantly. You don’t listen to the underlings in this company and allow it to drive any sort of change.

Sales Manager in Breckenridge, CO (via Glassdoor)

“Corporate Office.”

Don’t pay well. Don’t invest in processes. Stuck in the past. Expect you to sacrifice your life for the company.

Assistant Buyer in Broomfield, CO (via Glassdoor)

“Run. Run far away.”

This was without question the worst, most dysfunctional, clueless organization I’ve ever worked for. I can’t speak for other departments, but the Strategic Alliance department was an utter disaster. Poor leadership, poor teamwork and a VERY cancerous work environment. I cannot urge whoever reads this to stay far away from this role.

Advice to Management:

You need a sales team and an activation team. Everything needs to be rethought and overhauled. It’s embarrassing.

Strategic Partnerships Manager in Broomfield, CO (via Glassdoor)

“Burger Flipper.”

No innovation, no autonomy, no future. if you like doing the smallest code change possible then sitting on your hands for the next 3 sprints, then you’ll love this place. if you like being on monthly deployment calls with 50 other people doing nothing for 4 hrs, you’ll love this place.

Advice to Management:

Get rid of Chris S and Sue L. Empower development team to make improvements. kill all the useless meetings (hint, all of them). Actually listen to your employees when they make suggestions instead of talking to everyone like they are 3rd graders.

Software Development Engineer (via Glassdoor)

Vail Resorts company reviews – Part-III

“Narcissism, Negativity, and Micromanagement.”

Micromanagement is horrible here, leads are constantly berating agents and embarrassing them. Not offering any real help or training when asked. Unnecessary daily morning meetings where the leads tell us how horrible we all are and never have anything positive to say or solutions to offer, then telling us to “crush it” and “have a great day” like the past 15 minutes of negativity is motivation for us to do well. Don’t expect your lead to care about you, your situation, or anything that’s outside of being on the phones (I have comforted many agents crying about how stressed they are and getting no response when they reach out to their leads). Most leads have no idea how to even do their jobs, let alone ours. The customer service department is just a mess.

Advice to Management:

Take better care of who you are hiring to supervise your employees. A lot of quality, intelligent, and loyal employees jumping ship because they are tired of the constant negativity and confusion from the leads. We work hard for horrible pay and get no support or positive reinforcement for it at all. Just do better.

Customer Service Agent (via Glassdoor)

“Horrible company, incompetent managers.”

Horrible management, no work/life balance, no loyalty, horrendous pay.

Advice to Management:

Fire your management

Ski Tech in Colorado Springs, CO (via Glassdoor)

“Tips are not good here.”

Everything is bad here, really I would not lie to you about this. Get a job somewhere else and just buy a pass, unless you like drunken roommates and transient people in your room. You will like being cold and broke and looking for a place to live

Cashier/Barista in Breckenridge, CO (via Glassdoor)

“If you like being overworked & underpaid, Vail Resorts is for you!”

Now Vail Resorts is just another giant heartless corporation that says all the right woke nonsense but treats their employees like garbage. If you are going to work there, work on hourly not salary, they abuse salaried employees with ridiculous demands for your personal time.

Advice to Management:

If you want employees to stay and respect you, the actions have to match the words. You built that empire off the backs of employees who never got 1 dime of equity in the company while Rob Katz, Executive Management & Rob’s New York Hedge Fund buddies got rich

Senior Business Systems Analyst in Broomfield, CO (via Glassdoor)

Senior Account Manager Interview at Vail Resorts

Typical process. Recruiter phone screen, multiple video interviews. Overall it was simple, but there was a lack of communication and interviewers were disorganized during the interview. My experience was poor because they interviewed me in the second round of interviews when they already decided they were going to hire someone internally.

Anonymous (via Glassdoor)

Human Resources Interview at Vail Resorts

I was directly sourced via LinkedIn and was quickly scheduled for interviews. I met with the recruiter, hiring manager, and an internal HRBP (“peer”). They were highly responsive and moved quickly to schedule me for my next round after next round all within the same week.

I was communicating directly with the hiring manager who was making herself available and checking in with me regularly – all good signs of interest to go out of her way. I was told I would have one more conversation, and after following up a few times, received no reply.

After several days of silence, I received an automated decline email from the recruiter/ATS. After following up directly both with the recruiter and hiring manager for additional context, I still received no reply.

Auto-declines are used often and acceptable through most of the process – but not with late-stage applicants you’re seriously considering. Overall, a very disappointing candidate experience – then again, candidate experience is incredibly reflective of a company’s values and culture..

Anonymous (via Glassdoor)

Vail Resorts company reviews – Part-II

Put your head down and get through it I guess.

Surrounded by idiots 24/7 40+ hrs/week.

Assistant Manager in Keystone, CO (via Glassdoor)

Beyond poor.

Covid precautions are terrible and posed a threat to the community. They refused to pay me for my time in quarantine, due to some bushel miscommunication.

Warehouse Worker (via Glassdoor)

Do not recommend.

Very political culture with overall lack of accountability and micro management.

Director Marketing in Denver, CO (via Glassdoor)

Manager puts drivers at risk.

Unsafe vehicles, drivers forced into overtime, management fails to protect drivers, angry guests wearing masks.

Advice to Management:

None, after 17 years, I realized bad management is Vail Resorts policy, profits over people.

Route Driver in Beaver Creek, CO (via Glassdoor)

Lack of diversity.

Especially in leadership and they don’t care to make a change. No upward mobility – just machines. You can make more money at Taco Bell in Denver.

Talent Acquisition Specialist in Broomfield, CO (via Glassdoor)

I applied online. I interviewed at Vail Resorts (Denver, CO) in Nov 2021.

I was really excited to interview with Vail but after this interview process, am very disappointed with the level of professionalism and mutual respect shown in the recruiting process.

Anonymous (via Glassdoor)