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In my last role, I led the frontend for a customer analytics dashboard used by about 15,000 monthly users. We went with React + TypeScript, Vite as the build tool, Redux Toolkit for global state, and React Query for server state. For testing we used Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress for critical flows. We specifically chose Vite over Webpack because our dev server cold start with Webpack was ~40 seconds, which was painful for a 6-person team iterating quickly. After a spike, I pushed to migrate to Vite. That cut cold starts to under 5 seconds and reduced incremental build times by ~60%. The key decision was clearly separating server cache (React Query) from UI state (Redux/locals). Before that, everything lived in Redux and was hard to reason about. After refactoring, our Redux slice count dropped by ~35%, and new engineers were productive in under a week instead of ~3 weeks.
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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.
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.
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?