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Your concrete, product-grounded “why Cursor”
Say what this means in practice: "Bring evidence that you actually use Cursor for real work - interviewers expect it."
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Your concrete, product-grounded “why Cursor”Specific beats enthusiastic
The recruiter screen and the values round both probe genuine interest. A strong answer is specific to the security surface: you want to defend a product where the threat model is genuinely new - autonomous agents executing code on customer systems - and to build paved-road defenses in a flat, fast org rather than gatekeep. Ground it in something real you've seen: the agent-assisted review - BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. and Security Agents - that Cursor runs heavily on its own code, the privacy modes, the JIT posture.
“Most security jobs are applying known playbooks. Cursor's threat model is one that mostly doesn't have a playbook yet - agents reading, writing and running code on customer machines. I want to build the defenses for that, the paved-road kind that engineers adopt because they're the easy path, not the kind people route around. And you already practice it: BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. and Security Agents reviewing your own code is the exact work I want to own.”
Bring evidence that you actually use Cursor for real work - interviewers expect it. A sentence on something you built or secured with the agent or a sharp observation about a rough edge, beats any rehearsed enthusiasm and proves the authentic-use bar in one line.
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