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Mock recruiter screen and Cursor-usage check

Show why this lesson detail matters: "The recruiter screen sounds gentle and isn't."

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The recruiter screen sounds gentle and isn't. Inside thirty minutes a recruiter decides whether you are a real Cursor power user or someone who skimmed the docs last night and the people who fake it get caught fast.

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The Full Loop, Stage by Stage

THE FULL LOOP, STAGE BY STAGE

Interactive diagram. Step through it with the Next and Previous controls below, or Tab to a region to read its detail.

diagram: loop-timeline

Step through each round to see what it screens for and how to drill it before the real thing.

Cursor's own hiring notes flag that candidates who haven't used the product heavily struggle disproportionately. For a Product Quality Engineer that is doubly true: the whole job is being the in-house expert who can field a deep question about Tab or indexing without flinching. So this drill runs the screen on yourself before a recruiter does.