1 min lesson
Don't let stories drift into gatekeeping
Give a plain answer to "Why is a genuine 'time I was wrong' story unusually valuable in Cursor's security values round and what makes it land?" Then ground it in one lesson detail.
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Have a deliberate 'time I was wrong' or 'I found my own bug' story ready and tell it without softening. Truth-seeking is one of Cursor's explicit values and security work lives or dies on intellectual honesty about what you don't know. A candidate who owns a real mistake reads as more trustworthy than one whose every story ends in clean victory.
Under pressure, behavioral answers slide toward 'I caught it, I blocked it, I was right.' That posture undercuts the builder-first signal the whole loop is testing for. Anchor each story on what you built and how it reduced a class of risk, with the catch as setup rather than the punchline.