1 min lesson
Walk in with three things ready
Draft a two-sentence "why Cursor" for an introductory conversation that a different candidate could not have written.
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Walk in with three things ready
- A one-line fit statement: who you are as an engineer and why this exact role is the obvious next move.
- Two concise product stories, both grounded in shipping real user-facing software and owning a meaningful choice.
- A specific, current opinion from your own daily Cursor use - a workflow you run or an Agent behavior you'd change.
“I want to work on AI” does not explain why this role. Anchor instead to something only you could say: a workflow you improved, a product behavior you have studied or a specific idea for making software creation better.
“I've been using Cursor daily to refactor a TypeScript codebase and the place I keep wishing it were smarter is reviewing its own multi-file edits - I want a better diff surface for AI-generated changes. That problem is basically the job description here and it's the thing I'd want to be building.”
Use the conversation to remove uncertainty. Ask what the team is shipping, then confirm the next round's timebox, format, editor and tool rules. Write the answers down and let them replace any older candidate account you have read.