2 min lesson
Timed scheduling-tetris drill
Use "You don't find out whether your scheduling holds up by reading about buffers and time zones" to describe the practical rule.
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You don't find out whether your scheduling holds up by reading about buffers and time zones. You find out by starting a 10-minute timer, opening a blank calendar and building a clean loop while narrating every choice. This section is that drill, built on the exact shape Cursor's practical round would hand you: a panel, a candidate flying in and constraints that don't quite fit.
Set the timer before you read the constraints. The clock is part of the test. The practical exercise is checking whether you can hold five moving pieces in your head and still produce something a candidate could follow without a single follow-up question.
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This capstone drills the exact stages Cursor's RC loop puts you through - step through each to see what it tests.
- Candidate
- Priya, currently in San Francisco (PT), flying to the Soho NYC office for an in-person loop on Thursday.
- Loop
- 4 interviews + a 45-min lunch host slot, all between 10:00 and 16:00 ET on Thursday.
- Panel
- Recruiter (ET), Hiring manager (ET), two cross-functional interviewers - one ET, one PT joining over Zoom.
- Hard constraints
- The PT interviewer is unavailable before 12:30 ET; the HM has a standing block 13:00–14:00 ET.
- Goal
- A back-to-back loop with buffers, an explicit itinerary and complete context routed to every interviewer.