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Because that’s not a problem you can solve with software and algorithms. That a chemical and lithographic problem that requires a knowledge that rarely overlaps with software.

However GPS can be solved with some high school maths, and applying solutions found on the software engineering domain E.g. computing distance from latency, communicating with a remote resource over a comms link, broadcast vs unicast etc

It’s not like the interviewer is going to ask them to design the satellites and rockets themselves.