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You have to actually use it
Take this situation: "In a screen, the recruiter asks: 'What's your own experience with Cursor?' What's the strongest way to answer?" Lead with your decision, then add the reason.
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You have to actually use it
Cursor's screens probe genuine usage, not memorized talking points. The CEO has said publicly that candidates who view this as just a job won't pass. Install it, build or modify something real and form an opinion.
“I rebuilt a side project's API layer in Cursor last month. Tab was fine, but the moment it clicked was the agent refactoring three files at once and running the tests itself. I stopped context-switching to a browser. That is the thing I'd want a skeptical engineer to feel in their first ten minutes.”
A vague story is worse than a short one. “It's really powerful and saves time” reads as the marketing page. Name a specific thing you built, one moment that surprised you and one place it did not help. The honest limitation is what makes the rest believable.