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Seven-year-old gets job offer from Russian IT firm


The software company's boss said Sergey, who teaches coding in online videos, was 'a kind of Mozart'

On the strength of those videos, the information security firm Pro32 sent him a written job offer, for the post of head of corporate training. But Pro32's chief executive Igor Mandik told the BBC World Service he had spoken to Sergey's parents about finding ways to collaborate in the meantime. His YouTube channel has more than 3,500 subscribers, interested in learning programming languages Python and Unity, or who want to hear more about neural networks, which underlie many artificial intelligence tools.

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