Questions to ask & red-flag handling

Walk in with five questions so two survive the conversation. The questions you ask are themselves a seniority signal: a founding-platform hire probes the platform's real pain and leaves the perks for the recruiter.

Behavioral answers need evidence, not adjectives. Start with the decision, show the constraint, name what changed because of your action and close with the lesson you would apply at Cursor.

Aim at the seams of the system you'd own and assume it's partly unbuilt. A question that takes for granted there's a current reliability or cost fire and asks which one is worst signals that you'd run toward the hard problem.