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At a SaaS startup, I inherited a React/Node/Express/MongoDB app with duplicated logic, no tests, and 2–3 production incidents per week. Situation: features took 3x longer than estimated and deploys were risky. Task: stabilize the codebase while keeping roadmap delivery. Action: in week one I ran static analysis (ESLint, SonarQube), added logging, and mapped hotspots by error rate and change frequency. I prioritized: (1) fixing a brittle auth flow causing 40% of support tickets, (2) extracting shared services (API client, form validation), and (3) introducing a testing safety net (Jest + Cypress) for the most-used flows. I proposed a 20% “engineering health” budget to my manager and demoed weekly risk reduction. Result: incidents dropped 70%, average lead time fell from 10 to 4 days, and support tickets for auth dropped 60% in two sprints.
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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?