Sample Answer
In my last role, I joined a project to build a new reporting dashboard for the sales team. The initial requirement was basically, “We need a better dashboard,” with a rough bullet list of metrics. I started by mapping their existing reports and asking very concrete questions: who uses which metric, how often, and what decision it drives. I ran two 60‑minute workshops with about 10 stakeholders, using a simple user‑story template and low‑fi wireframes in Miro. That quickly exposed conflicts, like two regions defining “qualified lead” differently, which would have skewed KPIs by 15–20%. We agreed on standard definitions, documented them in a data dictionary, and produced a signed‑off requirements pack: user stories, sample report mockups, and non‑functional needs. Having that bundle as a single source of truth kept scope creep down to one minor change request post‑go‑live.
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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?
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?
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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.