What Cursor actually is

The fastest way to fail a Cursor SDR interview is to pitch the product to someone who builds it. Your job in the room is to prove you have actually used Cursor, can describe it in plain language and can translate it into something an engineering team feels on a Tuesday afternoon.

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built by Anysphere on the VS Code foundation. It keeps the editor developers already know, the file tree, terminal, extensions, keybindings and rebuilds the writing loop around AI that can see the whole codebase. The stated mission is to automate coding, which is the line the founder cares about and the line you should be able to say like you mean it.

You are not being hired to write production code. You are being hired to name what each surface does, why a working engineer reaches for it and where the value lands in a buyer's budget.