Cypress Environment & Infrastructure Reviews

The management structure at Cypress is relatively flat due to the size of the company. This means you can either view the company to have no potential to move up or you can view the company to have endless possibilities to move up. If you view it the second way - like I do - you have to be willing to put in the work to help create the structure enabling you to move up. While I don't see this as a negative, some might.

In a company this size there should be clearer communication and better organization. Although I got hired to work on a multi year project, I was usually given information about the project area the morning of field work. I regularly reported equip my malfunctions that were subsequently ignored or blamed on user error. One of these pieces of equipment was the truck I used in remote field sites that would periodically refuse to start. For the last months of my employment at Cypress, I was sent into remote work environments alone every day with no reliable way to contact emergency responders. Furthermore, for parts of my work, I was repeatedly instructed to record stream profile data in areas that were obviously dominated by sheet flow, rather than fluvial processes. Adding insult to injury, I was “let go” with no notice, even though I had never been reprimanded for poor performance, arrived at the office before my supervisors every day, and worked well over the 40 hours per week stipulated on my contract.