Then that's fair enough. I have to say, I respond quite differently to "I have a problem I'm trying to solve" vs something like "I need this algorithm implemen

Then that's fair enough. I have to say, I respond quite differently to "I have a problem I'm trying to solve" vs something like "I need this algorithm implemented", and a lot of the way these programming challenges are presented always come off to me as the latter, and as a result, contrived.