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Most recently, I had to get up to speed very quickly on Looker. Our leadership wanted self-serve dashboards for our top KPIs, and I was asked to lead the effort despite only having light SQL experience and no Looker background. I gave myself a two-week runway to become productive. I started with the official Looker training and then cloned an existing model to learn by reverse-engineering it. I blocked 90 minutes a day to write queries against our production data (in a sandbox) and paired twice a week with an analytics engineer for code reviews. Within three weeks, I’d built a core executive dashboard tracking activation, retention, and NPS, and trained 15+ colleagues on how to use it. Adoption was high—within the first month, we saw a 40% drop in ad-hoc data requests to the analytics team and much faster decision-making in our weekly business reviews.
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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?
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?