Get your feet wet but don't wade in past the shins. - REVENUE AUDITOR Vail Resorts Employee Review

2.0
31 Dec 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Decent entry-level experience with a publicly traded company. -Coworkers are great. -Occasional visits to some of the closer resorts at Eagle and Summit county resorts for work. -Schedule is flexible and immediate supervisors tend to be very understanding.

Cons

-Don't expect to be moved up based on merit alone. Strong tendency for favoritism in making promotion and hiring decisions. -Accounting process for the Revenue Audit department is outdated. -Poor training for a job requiring high volume in the peak season. -Pay does not even come close to matching what a revenue auditor should make given the professional capacity and expectations of the position. Vail's management has a similar attitude towards pay for their resort-based employees as well which nearly led to a strike at a couple of the resorts at the end of the 2015-2016 season. -Executive management is barely visible and clearly disinterested in the well being of all employees at the company. CEO is a former Wall Streeter and acts as such. -Overall this is an "okay" place to get your feet wet but for your own sake don't expect to stay there for more than a year. Get your experience working for a large and well-branded company and leverage it to transition to a better company with more opportunity. -Industry is highly cyclical and very sensitive to economic contraction, Vail is no exception and may have even more risk considering the high concentration of competing resort acquisitions in the United States. The company's future outlook will be heavily dependent on the state of the economy. If it stays strong, then it will continue to improve until the next economic contraction takes place.

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5.0
12 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The managers were really cool and the work was fun. Pretty relaxed environment.

Cons

It was cold sometimes and long hours standing but that was all in the job description and we got jackets.

2.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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