Cursor paid project day interview
Round 3 of 4 · 6 questions reported
- Length
- 480 min
- Format
- A realistic task in a slice of Cursor's actual codebase, scoped and built by you over about a working day
- They grade
- Finding your way in the codebase, scoping, a working core, code quality, and judgment with AI output (rejecting and checking what it writes)
- AI use
- AI is encouraged, including Cursor itself
- Heads-up
- This is the deciding round. Pasting AI output you do not understand is the quickest way to fail. Senior candidates sometimes get a take-home of similar size instead.
Questions Cursor asks in this round 6
About the Cursor paid project day round
What does Cursor ask in the paid project day round?
The most asked: Debug a codebase then propose long-term fixes, Pluggable hierarchical rate limiter and Repository Merkle tree hashing and change detection. 6 questions reported in all.
How long is the Cursor paid project day round?
About 480 minutes.
What is the Cursor paid project day round like?
A realistic task in a slice of Cursor's actual codebase, scoped and built by you over about a working day. They grade: Finding your way in the codebase, scoping, a working core, code quality, and judgment with AI output (rejecting and checking what it writes).
Can you use AI in the Cursor paid project day round?
AI is encouraged, including Cursor itself.