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In my last role, I noticed our onboarding for new hires was pretty chaotic. People were taking 6–8 weeks to become fully productive, and managers were all reinventing the wheel. This wasn’t formally my job, but I was the one everyone kept asking for “the docs,” so I volunteered to fix it. I started by interviewing 10 recent hires and 5 managers to map the current process and pain points. Then I built a standardized 30-60-90 day plan, centralized the key docs in a Notion workspace, and created three short Loom walkthroughs for the tools we used most. I ran a pilot with the next 6 hires, gathered feedback, and iterated twice. Within one quarter, ramp time dropped from roughly 7 weeks to just under 4 weeks, and new hires reported a 30% higher onboarding satisfaction score in our pulse survey. Our HR lead ended up rolling the playbook out to two other departments.
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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?
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?
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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.