Cursor (Anysphere)
Small (~50)
Labelbox
Medium (~350)
Best For
Cursor (Anysphere)
Best for: Generalist engineers who want extreme ownership at the most-loved AI code editor
Labelbox
Best for: ML infrastructure engineers building data labeling and training platforms for frontier AI labs and enterprises
Ratings
Cursor (Anysphere)Labelbox
4.0
3.8
Overall
3.5
3.6
Work-Life Balance
4.0
3.8
Culture & Values
4.2
3.6
Comp & Benefits
3.8
3.5
Senior Mgmt
3.5
3.6
Career Opps
👍 85% Recommend
👤 90% CEO Approval (Michael Truell)
👍 72% Recommend
👤 78% CEO Approval (Manu Sharma)
Culture Values
Cursor (Anysphere) only
🎯 Direct Product Impact🤝 Flat Hierarchy🧩 Wears Many Hats
Labelbox only
💎 Strong Comp & Equity🌈 Diverse & Inclusive
Shared
🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate⚙️ Engineering-Driven
Pros & Cons
Cursor (Anysphere)
- Building the most-loved AI code editor — massive developer love and daily impact
- Tiny team, extreme ownership — every person shapes the product directly
- Extremely small team = no specialists; everyone does everything
- Intense pace — the speed of shipping can be relentless
Labelbox
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Working with top AI labs as customers
- Rapid growth creates organizational churn
- Some teams move faster than others
Bottom Line
Cursor (Anysphere)
Choose Cursor if you want to shape the future of AI-assisted coding on a tiny team — but the pace is relentless.
Labelbox
Choose Labelbox if you want to work on the data side of AI — labeling, evaluation, and training infrastructure used by frontier AI teams — with moderate SF-based intensity.
Open Roles
Cursor (Anysphere) — 77 jobs
💻 Engineering
33
💼 Sales / GTM
19
📊 Data
3
🧠 ML / AI
3
🎨 Design
2
👤 HR / People
2
⚖️ Legal
2
⚙️ Operations
2
📣 Marketing
1
Labelbox — 9 jobs
💻 Engineering
3
🧠 ML / AI
3
📊 Data
1
Summary
Cursor (Anysphere) scores 4.0/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.5 work-life balance rating. Labelbox scores 3.8/5.0 overall with a 3.6 WLB. That’s a 0.2-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Ship Fast & Iterate, Engineering-Driven. Cursor (Anysphere) also emphasizes Direct Product Impact, Flat Hierarchy, Wears Many Hats. Labelbox also emphasizes Strong Comp & Equity, Diverse & Inclusive.
On the hiring front, Cursor (Anysphere) has 77 open roles and Labelbox has 9 open roles.