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Facebook's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Leaves For Google (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the musical-chair dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook hired Michael Sayman for an internship when he was 17 years old, and gave him a full-time engineering job at 18. Now, the wunderkind is leaving for Alphabet's Google. He turned 21 last week. At Facebook, Sayman was a product manager who helped the social-media giant understand how his generation uses their phones, advising on experimental products for teens and helping executives understand trends. At Google, he'll be a product manager for Assistant, a voice-based service built on the search engine's giant database.

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  1. Product Management isn't Engineering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Was he an engineer? Or a product manager? They're not the same thing.

  2. Who did the submission? by HockeyPuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was it this kid's mother who did it and needed to brag to her friends and relatives?