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Situation: On a React/Node project, the team faced daily CORS errors, 4xx spikes, and fragile frontend–backend integration. Task: In week one, I needed to stabilize contracts and unblock delivery. Action: I started by enabling detailed CORS and request logging in Express (morgan/winston) and capturing failing calls in the browser Network tab and Sentry. Then I introduced an OpenAPI/Swagger spec as the single source of truth and auto-generated a typed API client for React (Typescript). I added contract tests (Jest + supertest) that validated responses against the spec in CI and set up a shared .env config for consistent base URLs and CORS origins. Result: We eliminated CORS errors in 2 days, reduced integration bugs by ~70% in the first sprint, and cut QA-reported contract issues to near zero.
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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?
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.