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At my last fintech, we had a six-week backlog in KYC reviews impacting new-account conversions by about 18% and delaying ~$1.2M in monthly deposits. I led a cross-functional team of 12 (operations, product, engineering) to overhaul the onboarding pipeline. The biggest obstacles were legacy case management that couldn't scale, inconsistent reviewer rules, and a vendor whose ID verification false-reject rate was 9%. We phased changes: standardized decisioning rules, introduced a risk-tiered queue to prioritize high-value customers, and ran an A/B with a new vendor. In four months we cut the backlog by 85%, increased throughput from ~300 to 1,200 cases/week, and reduced vendor false-rejects to 1.8%. We also documented runbooks so the ops team could sustain it.
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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?