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Being the product expert
Give a plain answer to "Why does Cursor screen so hard for genuine power-user fluency in a quality role and how do you signal it credibly?" Then ground it in one lesson detail.
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Your briefs only move people if the room believes you know the product cold. Credibility is the currency and you earn it by being the person who can answer a deep Cursor question without bouncing it to engineering.
The recruiter screen probes whether you actually use Cursor day to day and the product round goes deeper. Cursor screens hard here because a quality owner who isn't a power user will mis-rank themes and miss the bugs that matter most to the people who matter most.
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Keep a living map of known issues
Keep a living map of known issuesissue, status, workaround
Maintain a written register of current bugs, their status and the workaround you'd give a user today. This is the artifact that lets you answer instantly across the org and the backbone of the VoC themes you brief. It also means you never give the same person two different answers a week apart.
- Surface
- Which feature - Agent, Tab, indexing, billing
- Symptom
- What the user sees, in their words
- Status
- Investigating, fix in progress, shipped, won't-fix
- Workaround
- What to tell a user right now while it's open