Doctors and lawyers certainly have a much easier hiring process, from all the ones I know. And in both fields experience is respected, the opposite of software

Doctors and lawyers certainly have a much easier hiring process, from all the ones I know. And in both fields experience is respected, the opposite of software development. Doctors in particular (with residency) and lawers to a lesser degree (bar exams) have a more difficult path into the profession. But they don't have to prep and go through the bar exam for every single interview after that. It would be unthinkable to make an established surgeon balance chemical reaction equations or something obscure like that from their undergrad days as part of the interview! But that's what software engineers must deal with.