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On my last team, I led a cross‑functional effort to launch a new onboarding flow involving product, marketing, sales, and customer support. I owned the project plan and was responsible for coordinating deliverables across about 15 people. The main friction point was priorities: marketing wanted a flashy launch, support wanted to minimize ticket volume, and engineering was nervous about scope creep. I set up a weekly 30‑minute “decision huddle” with clear agendas and a shared dashboard showing impact projections and constraints. We agreed on a phased rollout instead of a big‑bang launch, and I facilitated trade‑offs in real time so scope stayed stable. As a result, we launched two weeks earlier than planned, reduced onboarding time by 25%, and cut new‑user support tickets by 18% in the first month. Stakeholders actually asked to reuse that decision‑huddle format for later projects.
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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 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?
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.