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In my last role, I partnered with our VP of Operations and three business directors to overhaul a very traditional performance management process that everyone hated. Reviews were once a year, highly subjective, and 60% of managers were turning them in late. I started by running focus groups with managers and employees, then brought that feedback to a cross-functional design group with HR, Ops, and Finance. We shifted to quarterly check-ins, simplified the form from 8 pages to 2, and added a lightweight goal-tracking tool in our HRIS. I personally led manager training and created a short “coaching conversation” guide. Within the first year, on-time review completion went from 40% to 96%, voluntary turnover in key roles dropped from 18% to 11%, and engagement scores around “quality of feedback” improved by 21 points. The Ops VP later expanded the new process to two additional business units because of those results.
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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?
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 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.
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?