The Youngest Employee of Facebook Joins Google

Michael Sayman completed his internship at Facebook, which accepted him when he was only 17 years old. As soon as he turned 18, Facebook offered him a full engineering salary, and now, at 21, fully of legal age according to U.S. laws, he has moved to work for Google.

Sayman’s primary task at Facebook was to help the company understand how his generation thinks and how they use mobile phones. He was a product manager and assisted in developing products for teenagers. At Google, he will work on developing the Assistant, a voice service that relies on a vast database.

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Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, has prioritized the Assistant project, and the company is currently trying to connect the Assistant with all social platforms within Google, as well as make it compatible with all products and platforms of other companies.

Google’s personal artificial intelligence assistant has competitors Siri and Alexa. Siri was developed by Apple, while Alexa is an integral part of Amazon’s smart products.

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Facebook discovered Sayman by chance, as he already knew how to create an iPhone app at the age of 13, using available developer tools.

They sent a plane for him and his mother, so the young genius quickly met Mark Zuckerberg. He still had braces when he became the youngest employee at Facebook.

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When asked how he learned to program, he said he watched video tutorials on YouTube that explained how to do it.

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– On a personal level, I see the Assistant as an opportunity for Google to open its doors to younger users who would like to learn programming. I hope it will encourage them to explore the world of computers and science in ways they could never have imagined, Sayman said.

As for Zuckerberg, he said that he is a person who has absolutely inspired him for further work and that it was a pleasure to work with him.