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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 Inc'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. Assistant is a top priority for Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai . The Mountain View, California-based company is working to embed the tool across a range of its own products and on other companies' devices, facing stiff competition from Amazon.com's Alexa and Apple's Siri . Google confirmed on Monday that Sayman was hired for the Assistant team. Facebook discovered Sayman, who taught himself to make mob...