2 min lesson
Mock portfolio walkthrough
Rebuild the sequence in "Mock portfolio walkthrough" from memory, ending with the check that proves the outcome.
Step 1 of 3
The portfolio deep-dive is where most senior candidates quietly lose the loop. They give a tour of how clever the study was and never say what changed because of it.
Cursor's deep-dive runs about an hour on one or two case studies, with probing on tradeoffs, pushback and what you would do faster. Pick a single mixed-methods case you can run cold in under ten minutes, then leave the rest of the hour for the panel to dig. The case has to show qual and quant working together, because that is the practice they are hiring for.
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Pre-load the three probes
Pre-load the three probesthey will come; have crisp answers ready
Name the stakeholder and their real objection
Show how you changed their mind with evidence, not authority
If you lost the argument, say what you learned
Two methods you rejected and the one-line reason
Proves the choice was deliberate
Avoids looking like you only know one tool
The step that took too long for its value
How you'd scope it to ship in days
Directly answers Cursor's speed bar