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Gap analysis & study plan
Put this idea into your own words: "The mocks are worthless if you don't act on them."
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The mocks are worthless if you don't act on them. This section turns four messy scorecards into one ruthless final-week plan that spends your remaining time on the two things most likely to sink you.
Lay every dimension on one grid and score it cold. The point is to find your floor, not flatter your ceiling.
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Anything scoring 3 or below is a candidate for your two-area focus
- Dimension
- Coding fundamentals (no-AI)
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- Did two runs clear 4+ on all three axes?
- Dimension
- Auth architecture
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- OAuth/OIDCOpenID Connect. The modern single sign-on standard, built as an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0. Where SAML is XML and enterprise-legacy, OIDC is JSON and what newer tools implement first. Press Enter for the full definition., JWT pitfalls, rotation/revocation, RBACRole-Based Access Control. Granting permissions by role rather than configuring each person individually. Press Enter for the full definition., SSOSingle Sign-On. One company login (usually via SAML or OIDC) instead of a separate password per tool. Press Enter for the full definition..
- Dimension
- Webhook / event delivery
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- At-least-once, backoff+jitter, DLQ, idempotency, signing.
- Dimension
- Agent backend infra
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- Long-running workflows, streaming, queueing, backpressure, cost.
- Dimension
- SCM integration
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- Rate limits, pagination, partial-outage degradation, ingestion.
- Dimension
- People stories
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- Five STAR answers, real metrics, one owned mistake.
- Dimension
- Values fluency
- Score (1–5)
- -
- Evidence from your mocks
- Each story tagged to a Cursor value lands authentically.
| Dimension | Score (1–5) | Evidence from your mocks |
|---|---|---|
| Coding fundamentals (no-AI) | - | Did two runs clear 4+ on all three axes? |
| Auth architecture | - | OAuth/OIDCOpenID Connect. The modern single sign-on standard, built as an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0. Where SAML is XML and enterprise-legacy, OIDC is JSON and what newer tools implement first. Press Enter for the full definition., JWT pitfalls, rotation/revocation, RBACRole-Based Access Control. Granting permissions by role rather than configuring each person individually. Press Enter for the full definition., SSOSingle Sign-On. One company login (usually via SAML or OIDC) instead of a separate password per tool. Press Enter for the full definition.. |
| Webhook / event delivery | - | At-least-once, backoff+jitter, DLQ, idempotency, signing. |
| Agent backend infra | - | Long-running workflows, streaming, queueing, backpressure, cost. |
| SCM integration | - | Rate limits, pagination, partial-outage degradation, ingestion. |
| People stories | - | Five STAR answers, real metrics, one owned mistake. |
| Values fluency | - | Each story tagged to a Cursor value lands authentically. |
Anything scoring 3 or below is a candidate for your two-area focus. Don't average - your weakest dimension is what gets probed.