2 min lesson
Crafting your 'why Cursor'
Use the evidence to decide "Which 'why Cursor' opening best fits what this round rewards for a data platform engineer?" Explain the choice plainly.
Step 1 of 3
“I love AI” gets you screened out. Everyone interviewing says it. Your why has to be specific to THIS data platform at THIS stage - founding ownership, enormous scale and data that feeds the agent - and it has to connect to your actual track record.
The credible why is concrete and personal. You use Cursor, you've felt what the product does well and where it strains and you can name the thing about the data charter that pulls you in. For senior candidates this round is often informal, sometimes over a meal, which makes a rehearsed pitch land worse than a real opinion.