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On my last team, our main dashboard page was taking 5–7 seconds to load for about 30k monthly users, and support tickets were piling up. I wired up Real User Monitoring and tracked p95 page load, Time to First Byte, and API latency. The browser dev tools showed most time was spent waiting on a single analytics API, so I started there. On the backend, New Relic traces showed a heavy N+1 query plus some expensive JSON serialization. I added proper eager loading, reduced payload size by ~40%, and introduced simple in‑memory caching for common queries. That took the API p95 from ~2.8s to 450ms. On the frontend, we switched to lazy loading secondary widgets and skeleton states so users saw content in under a second. Overall, dashboard p95 dropped from ~6s to 1.2s, and related support tickets fell by about 60% over the next quarter.
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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 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?
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.
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?