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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*

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