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Timed decomposition drill
Connect "The decomposition round is the role's core filter" to the decision you would make.
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The decomposition round is the role's core filter. They hand you an enterprise mess and watch whether you scope it like an FDE or lunge at it like a contractor who bills by the ticket.
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The Full Loop You're Simulating
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Each drill in this capstone maps to a stage here. Click a stage to see what it tests and how to prep.
You can't cram this the night before. The only honest preparation is to run the round on yourself, under a clock, on a brief you haven't seen. Pick something with the texture of a real Cursor engagement and give yourself exactly 45 minutes.
Use a brief like: “A 200-engineer org wants Cursor to cut their PR-review time in half.” It looks like a feature request. It's actually a discovery problem wearing a metric. Your first move is never to design the workflow - it's to ask what's eating the review clock.