Great Place to Work - Engineer Cypress Environment & Infrastructure Employee Review

Cypress Environmental is a great place to work. Professional growth and development are high priorities for all employees. Company culture is very collaborative, supportive, fun, and dedicated to producing high quality work. Management is extremely experienced, intelligent, communicative, and friendly. Since I started 7 months ago, I’ve worked on an array of projects including but not limited to: land management planning, estuarine marsh monitoring, topographic analysis, threatened and endangered species surveys, wetland delineation, bathymetric surveys, and pine savanna restoration. This diversity of projects enables me to constantly learn and tackle new challenges. I am always given the tools, guidance, and support I need. Honestly, Cypress is the most rewarding and enjoyable place I have ever worked.

Some people may not enjoy working for a small business, but I find it enables employees to work on a large array of projects

The projects I worked on were interesting.

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.