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No surprise there. Tone-deaf marketing and there was a horror story a few years ago about the culture.

Was this the company that posted their ad directly onto HN talking about how happy they were to be working on Christmas eve (or whatever holiday it was)?

Yes. Someone else linked it earlier in the comments, so here you go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956

From the post: "i wonder — how am i so fortunate to be the ceo of a startup where people are so driven?"

Wow, that woman sounds incredibly obnoxious. Talk about a humblebrag.

I think that was Handybook (now Handy), not Homejoy, right? http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...

Wow, please tell me this is a fictional company. This reads like a caricature of everything wrong with the Silicon Valley tech scene.

As discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489273

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