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Walk in with three things ready
Work through this case: "The recruiter asks how you feel about Cursor's intensity and possible six-day-week pace. What's the strongest way to handle it?" Say what you would do and why.
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Walk in with three things ready
- A non-swappable “why Cursor, why this role, why now” - anchored to a real coding-agent experience, not to the AI market broadly.
- Two or three pieces of your public work you can pull up instantly: a post that traveled, a demo, an OSS repo, a thread.
- An honest answer on pace - that you want the intensity, with a concrete reason you thrive in it rather than a reluctant yes.
Don't sandbag the intensity question
When they raise the pace, a hedged “I can handle it” reads worse than an honest no. The team is small, flat and fast and they would rather pass than mismatch someone into burnout. If the intensity genuinely excites you, say why with a specific example of a stretch you loved. If it doesn't, this is the cheapest place in the loop to find that out.