Google Interview Question: Interviewer asked question, "How would you 'write a program' to do [X]?" (a very vague question), and become dissatisfied when I answered from an architecture standpoint. What he really wanted to ask was "How would you design an ALGORITHM to do [X]"?

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Interviewer asked question, "How would you 'write a program' to do [X]?" (a very vague question), and become dissatisfied when I answered from an architecture standpoint. What he really wanted to ask was "How would you design an ALGORITHM to do [X]"?

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