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Situation: At my previous company, our vendor abruptly changed their reporting portal three days before a board review, and I was asked to rebuild our monthly KPI report in the new system. Task: I had to learn the unfamiliar BI tool (Looker) and replicate 18 core metrics without delaying the meeting. Action: I skimmed the official docs for core concepts, then reverse‑engineered two critical reports as prototypes, focusing on accuracy over cosmetic formatting. I validated numbers by spot‑checking against our SQL warehouse and running parallel reports in Excel for the top 20 accounts. I documented each metric’s definition, data source, and filters in a one‑page playbook and recorded a 10‑minute Loom walkthrough. Result: Delivered the report on time, with <1% variance vs. legacy reports, enabled two colleagues to self‑serve within a week, and cut monthly reporting preparation time by 30%.
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Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?