Cursor's values & what they screen

The values round is a prediction, not a personality quiz. The team is small, flat and talent-dense, so the question under every question is: would you raise the bar in this room from your first week or would someone have to manage you? For a security hire there is a second layer - they need to know whether you'll be the engineer who builds the paved road or the one who files tickets and waits.

Cursor says a few things openly about the people who do well here and the JD adds the security-specific reads. They are truth-seeking, they own problems end to end with little guidance and they build security that engineers actually adopt. Each abstraction has a concrete tell, because a security engineer's work is graded by whether the threat surface of an agent that reads, writes and executes code on customer machines actually shrinks.