In the fight for elite AI talent, the salary is the easy part.
At Cursor, the $60 billion company behind a suite of popular coding tools recently acquired by SpaceX, hiring a candidate is a bit like trying to win over someone who’s completely out of your league.
“Closing is a team sport,” Matt Ward, Cursor’s head of talent, said on a recent episode of the “People by WTF” podcast. For some high-profile candidates, he said, “there are often daily standups around that candidate about what we’re doing to get them to yes.”
The company has also created private Slack channels dedicated to individual recruits, giving employees a place to coordinate…
