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Reframe range as the asset

Describe what "Don't apologize for being a generalist" changes in practice.

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Reframe range as the asset

An SA who can code with a developer in the morning and advise a CTO in the afternoon is exactly the hire Cursor wants. Don't apologize for being a generalist. The breadth is the qualification - it's what lets you live inside a strategic account and handle whatever it throws at you.

Watch out - the red flag

Any whiff of "that's not my job" is a culture-fit failure here. If you scope-police your responsibilities in the interview, the panel reads it as exactly the rigidity Cursor is trying to avoid. Show appetite for the messy, undefined work.

Say it like this

"I don't need a clean box to operate in. At my last account the enablement deck didn't exist, so I wrote it; the staging environment was broken, so I fixed it. I'd rather own the whole outcome than guard a narrow lane."