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Situation: Our monthly revenue and churn report was built in Excel from multiple CSVs and took 6 hours/month, with frequent discrepancies. Task: Improve accuracy, cut manual effort by 50%, and make it leadership-friendly. Action: (a) I mapped every metric to its source in a data dictionary, then used SQL (BigQuery) to recreate the numbers and reconcile row counts, joins, and filters; I added automated data-quality checks (freshness, nulls, outliers) in dbt. (b) I replaced manual CSV merges with an ETL pipeline in Fivetran feeding a Looker model, cutting manual steps from 18 to 4. (c) I redesigned the report in Looker with a one-page executive summary, clear definitions, and trend visuals, then aligned on it in a 30-minute stakeholder review. Result: 60% time reduction, error tickets dropped to near-zero, and executives adopted it as the single source of truth.
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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?