I don't get it. Does people without (hard) engineering or CS education, and without any kind of equivalent experience, get that kind of engineering/CS jobs even

I don't get it. Does people without (hard) engineering or CS education, and without any kind of equivalent experience, get that kind of engineering/CS jobs even today? It's like hiring an architect to do the structural engineering of a bridge. They both "make" buildings, but their heads are in different places.