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Arm every interviewer with context
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Arm every interviewer with context
An interviewer who walks in cold wastes the first ten minutes re-reading the resume and overlaps with what the last person already asked. Your job is to make sure that never happens.
- Confirm each interviewer has the interview kit and knows their specific focus area, so the panel covers the candidate from different angles instead of all asking the same thing.
- Attach the candidate's materials - resume, portfolio, the role they're up for - directly to the calendar invite, not buried in a thread.
- State who comes before and after them in the loop, so they can hand off and avoid re-treading ground.
"For each onsite I send the panel a one-line brief the day before: here's the candidate, here's your focus area, here's who they're talking to before and after you and the kit is attached. It means nobody walks in cold and the loop doesn't accidentally ask the same question four times."
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One itinerary, sent to the candidate
One itinerary, sent to the candidate
The candidate should receive a single, clear document: who they're meeting, when, where, in which timezone and what each session is. Not five separate invites they have to reconcile. The itinerary is the first proof that Cursor runs a tight, considerate process.
In the practical round you may be handed a panel and a set of constraints and asked to build the loop live. Narrate your sequencing logic out loud - warm-up first, decision-critical interviewers while fresh, buffers between intense rounds. Showing the reasoning is worth more than a fast answer, because it proves you design loops rather than just fill slots.