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Candidate-comms writing test
Explain the order in "Candidate-comms writing test", then say how you would verify the result.
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Coordination is mostly writing. The candidate who flew across the country judges Cursor partly by your emails, so the comms test grades whether your words are warm, exact and impossible to misread. Draft all four core messages, then grade them against the rubric below.
The four messages every loop needs: an interview invite, a prep note, a status update and a rejection. Write each one, then go back and cut anything that reads like template boilerplate. Cursor wants comms that feel written by a person, not pasted from a system.
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The candidate hears from you at each step - the rejection is the quality gate that most reveals your judgment.
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Interview invite - timezone-explicit
1. Interview invite - timezone-explicit
Subject: Your Cursor onsite - Thursday 6/18, Soho NYC Hi Priya, We'd love to host you at our Soho office this Thursday, June 18. Your loop runs 10:00 AM–3:00 PM ET (7:00 AM–12:00 PM PT) - I'll send a full itinerary with names and rooms once we lock it. Address: [office], buzz suite 4. Ask for me at the desk and I'll come down to meet you. Lunch is on us between sessions. Could you confirm this works by EOD tomorrow? If anything about travel or timing is tricky, reply here and we'll flex around you. Looking forward to meeting you, [Name] · [phone]