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Tie cadence back to the activity math
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Tie cadence back to the activity math
An SDR's pipeline is arithmetic and a strong take-home rationale shows you think that way. The funnel runs from touches to conversations to qualified meetings and your sequence is the engine that feeds it.
Illustrative funnel math (numbers vary by motion)
- Sequences started / week
- ~50 prospects entered into a 6-touch cadence
- Positive reply rate
- ~5% reply with interest → ~2-3 conversations
- Conversation → SQL
- ~30-40% become qualified meetings for an AE
- Output
- Roughly the meetings that sustain a monthly SQL quota
Treat these as illustrative ratios, not Cursor's published numbers - the point is showing you reason from activity to output.
Interview move
Close your rationale by saying you'd measure reply rate and positive-reply rate per step, kill the weakest touch and A/B the subject line. Showing you'd iterate on data, not just send and hope, separates a serious candidate from someone who wrote one good email.