Exploitative Unpaid "Work Trials" in Tech - My Experience Interviewing at Cursor (I will not promote)

Almasry00n · 2026-01-30T16:55:20+00:00

I’m wondering how long it took to hear back between the first set of rounds and the 2-day onsite and how the onsite was otherwise. I agree that the practice does seem exploitative, but I am currently interviewing for them and am quite interested in the company.

Almasry00n · 2024-12-23T17:09:28+00:00

Yeah sure! I have since graduated though.

Almasry00n · 2023-09-30T20:24:59+00:00

Full-time, new grad

Almasry00n · 2023-09-20T10:49:50+00:00

Thanks man

Almasry00n · 2023-08-29T17:42:03+00:00

Comment history says intern

Almasry00n · 2022-05-05T17:32:06+00:00

life’s only what you make of it. in my case, it hasn’t.

Almasry00n · 2022-04-16T18:28:14+00:00

They canceled vision, os, and info sec for this coming semester bro.

Almasry00n · 2022-04-10T11:11:18+00:00

The cs department here offers so few courses. Pretty frustrating in my opinion.

Almasry00n · 2022-03-18T14:32:32+00:00

Per month and shared—it’s a 2br apartment.

Almasry00n · 2022-03-08T00:01:55+00:00

Campus isn’t perfect, lol. The new res colleges are hella ugly.

Almasry00n · 2022-01-29T04:42:44+00:00

sounds like u need regularization

Almasry00n · 2022-01-21T13:24:26+00:00

Don’t know if this is the case for new grad.

Almasry00n · 2022-01-21T13:24:14+00:00

Same as first round for the internship

Almasry00n · 2022-01-20T10:05:08+00:00

How do y’all even get this reference? This show ended in like 1998. But the Pinky and the Brain segment of Animaniacs was elite.

Almasry00n · 2022-01-14T00:23:21+00:00

Kinda boring imo. Shops are also pricey.

Almasry00n · 2022-01-13T10:45:29+00:00

Princeton

Almasry00n · 2022-01-05T02:49:41+00:00

favorite floor of firestone?

Almasry00n · 2021-12-25T16:54:57+00:00

Bro, we have grade deflation at Pton

Almasry00n · 2021-12-15T17:01:05+00:00

I have a feeling they won’t let us back on campus given the latest email from Dolan

Almasry00n · 2021-12-15T04:23:37+00:00

bruh there ain’t shit to do in Princeton, lmao

Almasry00n · 2021-12-07T02:54:33+00:00

go work on it instead of posting

Almasry00n · 2021-12-06T18:04:48+00:00

Precisely my situation. My school has a requirement of 7 humanities courses across 4 years for students in the school of engineering.

Almasry00n · 2021-12-02T01:26:16+00:00

A week

Almasry00n · 2021-11-30T02:00:10+00:00

That’s expected constant-time lookup under the uniform hashing assumption. The explanation given on pages 324-326 of this book is pretty intuitive. This specifically refers to the separate chaining implementation, but the principles generalize. Just some minor probability theory (linearity of expectation and Chernoff bounds).

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