Prove you actually use the product

Prove you actually use the product

Interviewers expect you to use Cursor for real work and superficial prep is easy to spot. Use it on a codebase you care about for weeks before you interview and form security-flavored opinions only a real user would have.

• Use Cursor daily until you have real opinions about its agent behavior, not borrowed ones.
• Notice the security-visible behavior an engineer would: what the agent asks permission for before it runs a command, how it handles secrets in your files, what it does with an MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. tool you've connected.
• Have one concrete thing you'd want to dig into under the hood, framed as a hypothesis you'd test rather than a fact you assert about their internal design.