Pepperidge Farm – “Good company, disfunctional communications and management”

Pros

Great products
Good benefits
Solid parent company, Campbell's Soup.

Cons

Limited growth opportunities due to small size of company and cliques who impact perception of employee capabilities.
Communication style is passive aggressive with triagulations the norm. No one talks to you directly if they have a concern or issue. They don't even go directly to your manager. Feedback goes to your manager's peer group. As a result feeback is not substantiated with examples so employee can correct behaviors, or it's taken out of context.
People talk about you behind your back.
Very clique-y.
More relationship based than process based. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Conflict averse
Cross-functional collaboration and integration is an aspiration and "buzz" term within the organization. Howerver they can not quite shake the silo'd structure and it hampers true collaboration / integration.
Lots of meetings though the real action takes place in hallway conversations with those who hold the power.
Lots of talk about Leadership but no one really understands what it means. More like a dictatorship.

Advice to Senior Management

Restructure the organization.
Extend diversity to include personality, especially if your motto is "people valuing people."
Train your managers to be managers.