Liam BollingHow to land the Product Manager Interview at GoogleGoogle has one of the most difficult product management interviews. I’ve observed accomplished and smart people come to…Jan 16, 2020Jan 16, 2020
Liam BollingHere are 5 things I learned while I was a Program Manager at MicrosoftDuring college I was given a choice when I was interviewing for an intern position at Microsoft; I could become a Program Manager or a…Mar 24, 20191Mar 24, 20191
Liam BollinginEllie Calendar2/4/19: Choosing the best way to collect app usage dataFor this weekly update I’ll unpack a bit about how Ellie Calendar is going to handle app usage going forward. First it starts with…Feb 4, 20192Feb 4, 20192
Liam BollinginEllie Calendar1/28/19: What is multithreaded, asynchronous and what does this matter?Before jumping into my weekly update on Ellie Calendar, let’s recap on the basics of a computer.Jan 28, 2019Jan 28, 2019
Liam BollinginEllie Calendar1/21/19: The solution to all of the crashesSo this past week I’ve been struggling with figuring out how to prevent crashes that are a result from CoreData and concurrency violations.Jan 21, 2019Jan 21, 2019
Liam BollingThese are 4 things that Ellie Calendar sucks at. How do we fix them?A few weeks ago I posted about how we are trying to re-imagine a modern calendar (it’s called Ellie) and the response was nuts. Our little…Jul 1, 20181Jul 1, 20181
Liam BollingI’ve given up on finding a good calendar app, so let’s make one.One morning after a few months into working at Microsoft, my co-worker brought up that she felt super disorganized, and had been searching…Apr 29, 20189Apr 29, 20189
Liam BollinginStartupIUHow I forgot about Minimum Viable Product and paid the price for it.Everyone loves talking about their successes but here’s a refreshing story of failure and learning.Dec 10, 2017Dec 10, 2017
Liam BollingUber Isn’t Great for Women and Here’s a Solution.While I was in the begining stages of interviewing at Uber, they asked me to improve their product. This report got me through a few rounds…Oct 27, 2016Oct 27, 2016
Liam BollinginStartupIU5 Things I Learned While Working for TumblrThis past summer I worked for Tumblr, which has over 450 million blogs but only 300 employees. It’s one of the most popular social…Aug 28, 2015Aug 28, 2015