2 min lesson
Scripting & automation that ships
Walk through "Scripting & automation that ships" in order, then name the proof that tells you it worked.
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The first technical screen is a hands-on scripting round and the bar is not "can you write Python." It's whether you reach for code by default to make a manual IT process disappear and whether the script you write would survive contact with a real Okta tenant.
Cursor frames this role as software engineering applied to IT. The interviewer is reading for an engineer's mindset: you hit a SaaS REST API, you handle the pagination and the 429s and you make the thing safe to run twice. A candidate who writes a one-shot script that double-creates users on a re-run has told the interviewer they've never run automation in anger.
Interactive diagram. Step through it with the Next and Previous controls below, or Tab to a region to read its detail.
Read current state, diff against desired, gate on a dry-run, then apply only the delta - idempotent by construction.