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At my last company, I was in an operations role but kept bumping into questions about data that I couldn’t really answer. I decided to push myself and learn basic analytics, even though I had no technical background. I asked our analytics lead if I could shadow her one afternoon a week for a quarter. I learned how to pull simple queries, build a basic dashboard in Looker, and interpret funnel metrics. Within three months, I used those skills to redesign our intake process for service requests. Instead of guessing, I analyzed three months of ticket data and found 60% of issues came from the same two forms. We simplified those forms and added clearer instructions, which cut repeat tickets by 28% and reduced average resolution time by about 1.5 hours. The experience made me much more comfortable collaborating with analytics and eventually led to me co-owning our quarterly KPI review process.
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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?