Press Mentions

Press Mentions, Speaking Engagements, & Guest Interviews

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February 23, 2024: Book Talk: Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever…with Lewis Lin (Video)

October 5, 2023: How to Optimize Your Answers to Tech Job Interview Questions by Leslie Stevens-Huffman

February 26, 2023: 6 Alternatives to the STAR Method for Job Interviews by Sandra Dawes-Chatha

October 5, 2022: 6 Ways to Blow a Job Interview Without Realizing It by Dice

September 16, 2020: CEO shares tips to help you land a job during a pandemic by NBC Houston (Houston Life Segment)

September 16, 2020: If you think your salary is too low, do these things before you ask for a raise by Today

January 17, 2020: If you think your salary is too low, do these things before you ask for a raise by Today

December 3, 2019: A Deep Dive into ESTEEM Framework for Product Managers in the Consulting World with Lewis C. Lin by Leapfrog

November 2019: Product Author Lewis C. Lin – Advancing Your Product Management Career

November 14, 2019: How to Implement the CIRCLES Framework into a Services Company? by Leapfrog

November 4, 2019: Up for a Raise? Use These Five Strategies to Make It Happen by Entrepreneur Magazine

August 28,  2019: Product Love Podcast: Lewis Lin, Author of “Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever”

August 21, 2019: Lewis Lin sharing ESTEEM framework from his book, Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever

May 17, 2019: 16 Google interview questions that were so tough the company eventually banned them by Ladders

April 13, 2019: Tech Interview Workshop, Santa Clara University

February 16, 2019: Tech Interview Workshop, University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business

January 28, 2019: 16 Google interview questions that were so tough the company eventually banned them by Ladders

January 19, 2019: Tech Interview Workshop, Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business

January 13, 2019: Tech Interview Workshop, University of Washington’s Michael G. Foster School of Business

December 1, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management

November 30, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School 

November 11, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Carnegie Mellon Tepper

November 3, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, USC Marshall

November 2, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, UC Irvine

October 20, 2018: Marketing Interview Workshop, UCLA Anderson

October 19, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Cornell

October 13, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, NYU Stern

October 12, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Columbia Business School

September 23, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Yale School of Management

September 22, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

September 21, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, Olin School of Business

September 9, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop, UT Austin McCombs

August 11, 2018: Interview Workshop, Ivey Business School 

May 20, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

March 17, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University

March 3, 2018: Product Management and Marketing (Tech, Financial Services, and CPG) Workshop, University of Texas

February 27, 2018: Product Management Books Review: From New Releases to the Classic Must-Read Ones

January 20, 2018: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Georgia Tech MBA Scheller College of Business

December 23, 2017: Best of 2017: These are the books that every jobseeker should read by World Economic Forum

December 2, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Yale School of Business

December 1, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, NYU Stern

November 30, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School

November 4, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business

October 29, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business

October 28, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Ivey Business School

October 27, 2017: 12 interview questions banned by Google

October 27, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Columbia Business School

October 20, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

September 23, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business

September 22, 2017: Product Management and CPG/Marketing Workshop, University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business

September 16, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business

August 26, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management

August 25, 2017: Product Management and CPG/Marketing Workshop, Texas A&M’s Mays Business School

July 4, 2017: These are the books that every jobseeker should read by World Economic Forum

June 23, 2017: 13 books every jobseeker should read by Business Insider

March 25, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, University of Texas

February 25, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business

January 30, 2017: Expert Interview: Lewis Lin from Impact Interview on Salary Negotiations

January 21, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

January 14, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

January 12, 2017: Tech Interview Workshop: PM and PMM, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

November 30, 2016: An Ex-Googler Explains Why Google Failed So Often, Despite Hard Work And Commitment

November 30, 2016: Product Management Workshop, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

November 30, 2016: Are YOU smart enough to answer Google’s tricky interview questions? Even the firm’s boss Eric Schmidt admits they left him stumped by Daily Mail

November 10, 2016: Brain-Teaser Interview Questions Serve A Purpose

November 9, 2016: Dollars and Sense: Expert Advice on Negotiating Salary and Benefits

November 5, 2016: Tech Interview Workshop for MBAs, UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business

October 29, 2016: Tech Interview Workshop for MBAs, Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business

October 28, 2016: Tech Interview Workshop for MBAs, Columbia Business School

October 27, 2016: Google used to ask these interview questions, but they’re so complicated they were banned by TechWorm

October 26, 2016: Stupid questions one company used to ask potential employees by HumanResourcesOnline.Net

October 21, 2016: Tech Interview Workshop for MBAs, Cornell’s SC Johnson Graduate School of Management

October 17, 2016: Google used to ask these interview questions, but they’re so tricky they were banned by Business Insider

October 1, 2016: Product Management Workshop, University of Washington Foster School of Business

September 24, 2016: Product Management Workshop, University of Texas Austin McCombs School of Business

September 24, 2016: CPG Marketing Workshop, University of Texas Austin McCombs School of Business

Lewis Lin Tech Interview Workshop at University of Texas

September 23, 2016: Product Management Workshop, Texas A&M University Mays Business School

September 23, 2016: CPG Marketing Workshop, Texas A&M University Mays Business School

September 23, 2016: How to Figure Out What You Should Earn at Your First Job, Monster.com

September 15, 2016: Lewis C. Lin – How to Ace the Product Manager Interview, Product Management Consortium

July 24, 2016: Product Management Workshop, UC Berkeley Haas MBA Program, Evening & Weekend MBA Program

Spring 2016: Amazon to Zulily: The Foster School Comprehensive, Innovative, and Personalized Approach to Career Management by Foster Business

April 13, 2016: Google Interview Questions by NBC (via King5 Seattle’s NBC Affiliate)

April 12, 2016: Five Minutes to a Higher Salary Webinar by Evisors

March 25, 2016: Are YOU clever enough to answer Google’s toughest interview questions? The firm’s brain teasers are so fiendishly hard they’ve been banned by Daily Mail

March 25, 2016: Can you answer these 10 Google job interview questions? by Business Tech

March 24, 2016: 10 brain-straining Google interview questions by MyBroadband

March 22, 2016: Interview questions Google pulled down because they were impossibly difficult to answer by International Business Times

March 21, 2016: The banned Google interview questions: can you answer them? by Financial Review

March 21, 2016: Google used to ask these interview questions, but they’re so hard they were banned by The Independent

March 21, 2016: Google used to ask these interview questions, but they’re so hard they were banned by Business Insider

March 21, 2016: Google’s Banned Job Interview Questions by Sina.com

February 16, 2016: Fast Cash: Tips for Scoring a Bonus by Dice

January 14, 2016: Product Management Workshop, Stanford Graduate School of Business

January 12, 2016: Should you take a salary lower than expected for your first job? by Monster

December 2, 2015: Product Management Workshop, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

December 2015: Your First Salary, American Psychological Association

November 14, 2015: Product Management Workshop, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

November 6, 2015: What’s Your Greatest Weakness? The Unexpected Benefit of Tough Interviews by TheStreet.com

October 30, 2015: Product Management Workshop, Johnson Cornell University

October 24, 2015: Product Camp Seattle

October 23, 2015: Product Management Workshop, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business

October 20, 2015: Case Interview Math Workshop, University of Washington’s Foster School of Business

October 8, 2015: What is Google interview ask? by China Press

October 3, 2015: Product Management and Marketing Workshop, University of Washington’s Foster School of Business

September 21, 2015: Product Management and Marketing Workshop, UC Berkeley Haas MBA Program

September 10, 2015: Product Management Workshop, Cornell Tech

May 28, 2015: Great Product Managers – Are you ONE? Product Tank Seattle Chapter

April 17, 2015: Five Minutes to a Higher Salary: A Negotiation Workshop, Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business

March 29, 2015: Workshop: Salary Negotiation & Scripts, LeanIn Seattle Chapter

March 16, 2015: Product Management Workshop, Cornell Tech and Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Business

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March 4, 2015: Salary Negotiation Workshop, University of Washington’s Foster School of Business Women in Business Club

February 26, 2015: Five Minutes to a Higher Salary Interview, hosted by Evisors

February 25, 2015: Five Minutes to a Higher Salary Interview by Q13Fox

February 23, 2015: An Evening with Lewis C. Lin: Five Minutes to a Higher Salary

January 29, 2015: How to Ace Case Interview Math

January 26, 2015: How to Spend the Hour Before Your Interview by Business Insider

January 22, 2015: Product Management Workshop at University of Utah, Eccles School of Business

January 17, 2015: 3 Hour Job Search Boot Camp at University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Executive MBA Program

January 14, 2015: How to Spend the Hour Before Your Interview by US News & World Report

January 10, 2015: 3 Hour Job Search Boot Camp at University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Executive MBA Program

October 30, 2014: Interview Math, Part II, hosted by University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Full-Time MBA Program

October 30, 2014: Interview Math, Part I, hosted by University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Full-Time MBA Program

October 29, 2014: Interview Math, Part I, hosted by University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Full-Time MBA Program

October 21, 2014: How to Prepare for the Marketing Case Interview, hosted by Columbia Business School

October 21, 2014: How to Prepare for the Product Management Interview, hosted by Columbia Business School

October 18, 2014: How to Prepare for the Product Management Interview, hosted by General Assembly

October 8, 2014: Marketing Case Interview Workshop, hosted by Foster Marketing Association

September 18, 2014: Decode and Conquer: Preparing for the Product Management Interview, hosted by Product Management Consortium

September 10, 2014: How to Ace the Product Management Interview, hosted by Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management

September 9, 2014: How to Stand Out at the Brand and Marketing Management Interview, hosted by Evisors

September 4, 2014: Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone

August 14, 2014: Lewis C. Lin Interview on Rise Above the Noise on NPR Radio

August 1, 2014: 6 Hour Job Search Boot Camp at University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Executive MBA Program

July 30, 2014: 15 Real Tech Company Interview Questions You Will Probably Be Asked (And How To Answer Them) by Business Insider

July 15, 2014: 140 Google Interview Questions, Discussed on Reddit

July 14, 2014: How to Get a Product Manager Job at Carbon Five, San Francisco

July 14, 2014: Product Management Workshop at Santa Clara University

July 12, 2014: Product Management/Marketing Interviewing Workshop at University of California, Berkeley

July 10, 2014: Have a look at a collection of 17 ridiculous questions Google used to ask interviewees by The Tech Gets

July 10, 2014: 10 RIDICULOUS GOOGLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS THE COMPANY IS RUMORED TO HAVE BANNED by Bustle

July 9, 2014: 17 Ridiculous Questions Google Has Stopped Asking During Interviews by Entrepreneur Magazine

July 9, 2014: Here are 17 silly questions Google stopped asking potential employees by BGR

July 8, 2014: 17 Former Google Interview Questions So Ridiculous That The Company Banned Them From Being Asked by Business Insider

May 16, 2014: How to Get Hired as a Product Manager, hosted by collegefeed

May 13, 2014: Rise Above the Noise Interview by Q13Fox

April 24, 2014: Careers in Product Management via Evisors

April 21, 2014: An Evening with Lewis C. Lin, Author of Rise Above the Noise at Foster School of Business at University of Washington

April 15, 2014: How to Get a Product Manager Job, Featuring Lewis C. Lin, Bestselling Author of Decode and Conquer at Stanford University

April 14, 2014: Product Management – How to Conquer the Interview, Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley

March 28, 2014: Lewis Lin – CNN’s “10 job tweeters you should be following” by Awesome Some

February 26, 2014: Q13 Fox Morning News — discussing oddball questions

January 13, 2014: How to Ace the Microsoft MBA Interview, University of Washington’s Foster School of Business in Seattle, WA

October 26, 2013: How to Ace the Product Management InterviewProduct Camp 2013 in Seattle, WA

June 27, 2013: Interview Questions That Really Work by Inc. Magazine

June 25, 2013: Why Brainteasers Don’t Belong in Job Interviews by The New Yorker

June 24, 2013: Google Skips ‘Waste of Time’ Brainteaser Interview Questions by ABC News Radio, WGOW 1150 AM

June 22, 2013: It Did Not Work in Google Job Interviews by Origo.hu

June 21, 2013: Google Skips ‘Waste of Time’ Brainteaser Interview Questions by ABC News

June 21, 2013: Google Drops Impossible-To-Answer Interview Questions by CBS

June 20, 2013: Google: Pompous Interview Brainteasers Are Pointless by PC Magazine

June 20, 2013: Google Finally Admits That Its Infamous Brainteasers Were Completely Useless for Hiring by The Atlantic

June 20, 2013: Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring by Quartz

June 20, 2013: Google Puts an End to “Useless” Brainteasers During Job Interviews by Best Techie

June 20, 2013: Google admits job interview brainteasers were “waste of time”, GPAs and test scores don’t matter by Techspot

May 17, 2013: Code Fellows — discussing interview tips for Ruby developers

May 13, 2013: Q13 Fox Morning News — discussing college hiring

March 8, 2013: Code Fellows — discussing interview tips for Ruby developers

November 15, 2012: 15 MORE Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb by Business Insider

November 13, 2012: 15 Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb by Business Insider

September 18, 2012: Q13 Fox Morning News — discussing holiday hiring and job interview tips

March 26, 2012: The Tricky Interview Questions that Google Has Banned by Huffington Post

December 27, 2011: Fox News Talk’s Kilmeade and Friends — discussing why companies use weird interview questions

November 28, 2011: The craziest questions Google interview by Journal Du Net

November 21, 2011: 15 BANNED Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid by Business Insider

July 21, 2011: How to Handle Job Search Rejection by HotJobs

March 11, 2010: 7 Secrets for Successful Military Career Transitions — a guest post for Military.com

March 8, 2010: Interviewing Tips for the Socially Awkward — quoted by NWJobs, a Seattle Times company

November 29, 2010: 140 Google Interview Questions, Discussed on Reddit

November 17, 2010: What Recruiters Won’t Admit About Your Education: The Most Important Thing Is Brand Name by Business Insider

November 9, 2010: Answers To 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid by Business Insider

November 8, 2010: 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG) by SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle

November 8, 2010: 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid by Business Insider

September 11, 2010: 15 Google interview questions to make you feel stupid by The Daily Edge

Fall 2010: Watch Your Mouth by Jungle Campus

July 19, 2010: Is Your Career in Danger? Take the Test by Yahoo! HotJobs

March 14, 2010: Get the 411: Tips for the Informational Interview by The Galveston County Daily News

March 5, 2010: After the Recruiter Says No: How to handle job-search rejectionsby Yahoo! HotJobs

February 4, 2010: Ace the Job Interview Workshop with the Job Seeker Network

February 2010: Answering “What is your weakness?” question, featured in Oregon State University’s Career Connections Newsletter

January 31, 2010: Networking events to warm up winter’s half-way point by Seattle Times

November 18, 2009: Fuzzy logic: Employers’ Top 10 brainteasers by The Irish Independent

November 18, 2009: Manholes, pirates and window cleaning — welcome to the modern job interview by The Irish Independent, Ireland’s largest selling daily newspaper

November 12, 2009: From Kitchen to Cubicle, What Business Owners Returning to the Corporate Womb Should Know — quoted by ABC News

November 12, 2009: 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupidly by Index HR

November 11, 2009: 15 More Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid by Business Insider

November 5, 2009: US career counselor announced 15 Google interview questions by Sina

November 9, 2009: Answers To 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid by Business Insider

November 8, 2009: Here’s a tricky one, Google: The cyber giant fires tough and quirky questions at job applicants. We ask why — quoted by Sunday Times of London, the UK’s dominant Sunday newspaper

November 8, 2009: Think You Can Answer Google’s Job Interview Questions? by Switched

November 7, 2009: Should you mention your upcoming vacation in an interview? — quoted by NWJobs, a Seattle Times company

November 6, 2009: You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz by San Francisco Chronicle/InfoWorld

November 5, 2009: Fancy a job at Google? by guardian.co.uk

November 5, 2009: Answers To 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG) by Business Insider

November 4, 2009: 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG) by Business Insider

November 3, 2009: Google interview questions released by telegraph.co.uk

November 3, 2009: Revealed: Google Job Interview Questions! by The Big Money/Slate Group

November 2, 2009: Google’s interview brain teasers by SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle

October 2, 2009: The Do’s and Don’ts of Explaining Your Recession Lay-off by Wetfeet

September 2009: Top 20 Tweeters All Job Seekers Should Follow by Jobsite

August 2009: Named as “Top 10 Job Tweeters” by CNN.com

July 22, 2009: The Weakness Question by Wetfeet

June 1, 2009: Interview with Bill Vick, EmploymentDigest.net

May 13, 2009: Winning Secrets to Acing Your Next Job Interview, NAAAP Seattle Diversity Career Expo in Seattle, WA

April 13, 2009: 7 Secrets to Successful Informational Interviews — a guest post for Careerealism

March 30, 2009: How to Improve Your Interview Skills and Beat the Competition — a guest post for What Would Dad Say