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  • Cursor logoAsked at Cursor 

    Describe a challenging project you worked on and what made it difficult.

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    "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."

    Shuchi A. - "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    Build a hash tree algorithm.

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    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • Cursor logoAsked at Cursor 

    Why do you want to work at Cursor?

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    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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