2 min lesson
Coordinating Cursor's multi-day onsite project
Respond to "Why does coordinating Cursor's multi-day paid onsite well matter more than running a standard one-day interview loop?" Name the reason and the detail behind it.
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Cursor's real decision round isn't a whiteboard interview. It's a multi-day paid onsite where the candidate works alongside the team on actual problems. Coordinating it well is the clearest single demonstration of the whole role: host, scheduler and ops builder in one stretch.
The stakes are different from a standard onsite. The candidate is investing real days of their life, often after flying in. How smoothly you run their logistics is a direct signal of how much Cursor values them and a clumsy experience here can lose a hire the company genuinely wants.