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On the customer analytics platform on my resume, I leaned heavily on Agile/Scrum, but we adjusted it quite a bit for our reality. We were a small cross‑functional team of 6, with data engineers, a backend dev, and me as the lead plus acting product owner. We ran two‑week sprints, but instead of rigid user stories at the start, we started with thin vertical slices: get a single event type all the way from ingestion to dashboard in sprint one. I set up a lightweight backlog grooming session twice a week because requirements from Marketing changed often. We added a “data validation” column to our board so analysts could sign off before anything was called done. That small tweak cut rework by about 30%. After three sprints, we’d reduced cycle time from roughly 18 days to 9 and were shipping incremental value every sprint instead of one big release at the end.
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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.
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?
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?