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Telling platform stories that land
Start at the first move in "Telling platform stories that land" and carry it through to the proof.
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STAR keeps you structured, but the default STAR fails platform candidates because it buries the part Cursor cares about: the ambiguity you walked into and the scope you defined. Lead with that, then quantify the result in platform terms.
A data scientist tells the project story; a platform engineer tells the foundation story. The difference is whether your Result is “the dashboard shipped” or “ingestion went from flaky cron jobs to a self-serve asset graph 30 engineers now use without paging me.” Cursor is hiring for the second.