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At my last company, I managed a shared support inbox that averaged 200–250 emails a day across 4 time zones. To keep it under control, I set up simple rules and tags: red for urgent (finance, legal, CEO/VPs), orange for time‑sensitive customer issues, and blue for general questions. I personally handled about 60–70%: anything routine, template‑friendly, or within my authority. Items touching contracts, refunds over $5K, or product bugs went into an “Escalate” view with @mentions to the right owner and a 24‑hour internal SLA. To avoid misses, I used a daily “zero blind spots” check at 4 p.m. where I filtered by unread + older than 4 hours and scanned all escalations. Within two months, we cut average first‑response time from 10 hours to under 3, and we went from 8–10 missed emails a week to essentially zero.
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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 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.
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.
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?
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?