Cursor's values & culture

Cursor reads management ability through behavior, not org charts. The team is flat and talent-dense and a leadership conversation here is really a prediction: would you raise the bar and ship from week one or would the org have to route around you?

Three things get said openly about people who do well at Cursor. They are truth-seeking, they enjoy spirited debate and crazy ideas and they ship. For an Engineering Manager owning Core Services, those words have to survive a follow-up, because the people interviewing you decide hard cases by conversation rather than by escalating to a VP.