Doctors and lawyers do have to go through a long and expensive process to become doctors and lawyers, but once they pass the bar/finish their residency their hi

Doctors and lawyers do have to go through a long and expensive process to become doctors and lawyers, but once they pass the bar/finish their residency their hiring process is much the same as anyone else. They are certainly not made to do some weird Kabuki theater demonstration where they are forced to quickly solve some difficult problem that has little or nothing to do with their work. Peoples' assessments of the difficulty of work depends on how much they enjoy it. Most lawyers would probably consider passing the bar exam, while difficult, to be easier than learning a programming language. If they were told that our normal hiring process consists of being made to hand-write on a whiteboard, in Java or C++, the most optimal algorithm for a randomly-chosen complex mathematical problem, in 30 minutes or less, with someone watching and critiquing you the entire time, and if your answer is in any way suboptimal you aren't hired, no matter how impressive your previous body of work - then they (the doctor or lawyer) would undoubtedly wonder why we would ever put up with such a thing.