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In my last role, our team was spending an absurd amount of time pulling weekly performance reports for sales and leadership. Three analysts were each burning 6–8 hours a week manually exporting CSVs, cleaning data in Excel, and emailing slide decks. I mapped the workflow end‑to‑end, then rebuilt it using a simple stack: SQL views in our warehouse, a dbt job to standardize logic, and a scheduled Looker dashboard with email alerts. I also documented the metrics so sales and finance agreed on the definitions. Once it was live, we cut the reporting cycle from ~20 analyst hours a week to under 2, and we eliminated a ton of version‑control headaches. That freed the analysts to focus on deeper pipeline analysis, which directly contributed to identifying a segment where we lifted win rates by 5 percentage points the following quarter.
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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.
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?