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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. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean really who the fucks cares.
    He prolly the one making everything so shitty.

  2. Self promotion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did he post this story to promote himself? First I have ever heard of him. Editors, can you get this shit off the front page?

    1. Re:Self promotion? by MylenVoid · · Score: 5, Informative

      "Posted by msmash on Monday"
      "https://www.facebook.com/ms"
      "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1470347966393216&set=a.121401937954499.24720.100002540804807&type=3&theater"

      Sure looks like it, its timed, and the initials match up.

  3. I knew nothing of him, so I checked Wikipedia... by gosand · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kid makes a mobile game, gets hired by FB as developer (software engineer my ass), somehow becomes a product manager and spends 2 years learning about his own demographic and creates a failed social app.

    For some reason, this makes him attractive to Google and they hire him.

    *ugh*

    Not only is Idiocracy becoming real, so is Silicon Valley.

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  4. Re:It'll be sad when he peaks by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Informative

    If he gets the money. A product manager isn't typically given tons of options and the salary isn't necessarily the greatest. It's near the bottom of the management pecking order, and isn't a people management job usually. However, the job normally requires some actual working experience.

    I have a friend who started as an intern and grew into a management and then VP position in less than a decade, on the basis if being there in the early startup days and having more knowledge of what was going on than any of the newer hires. But the lack of experience was evident, in engineering and management. Still a very bright person, just promoted 10 to 20 years too soon.

  5. 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?