2 min lesson
Why Cursor, why now, why you
Explain your answer to "Why is a generic 'I'm passionate about AI' answer especially risky in the Cursor PM recruiter screen and what should replace it?" Add one concrete detail from the lesson.
Step 1 of 3
“I love AI and this is the hottest space” dies on the first follow-up, because the team has heard it a hundred times and you're interviewing with people who build the product. A real why-Cursor is grounded in your daily use of the tool, a thesis about where coding is going and a specific answer to what you'd want to own first.
Treat the why-Cursor as three claims you can each defend under pushback. The recruiter screen explicitly probes whether you actually use Cursor as a daily tool, so a generic motivation answer is also an authenticity failure.
Learn more
Full explanation
Why Cursor, why now, why you
The bridge from your background to the JD's charter should feel obvious, not strained. If you've shipped infrastructure, cloud or platform products, say how that prepares you for a developer audience that punishes anything slow or untrustworthy. If you've been an engineer, lean on the fact that you can prototype the feature yourself and reason about architecture with the team.