2 min lesson
Walk in with three things ready
Draft a two-sentence "why Cursor" for the recruiter screen that a different candidate could not have written.
Step 1 of 2
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 product stories you can tell in 60-90 seconds each, both grounded in shipping real user-facing software.
- 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” and “I love hard problems” are the two answers every candidate gives, so they carry no signal. Anchor instead to something only you could say: a multi-file edit you drove with the Agent and where it broke down, a tab-completion behavior you have a view on or a specific bet about where the editor should go next.
“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.”
This stage is also yours. Come with two real questions: what the team is shipping right now and where the product is heading next. Asking them well signals that you think like an owner who's already deciding whether this is where you want to spend your effort.