> Almost all professionals working in fields that pay as high as software development have higher bars, whether it's law, medicine, finance. It's a myth that only software developers have to go through a kind of technical challenge in order to get a job. If anything, spending 90 minutes to solve basic technical questions and getting a 6 figure salary as a reward is among the least demanding and most objective systems that exist among professionals.

The more traditional professions do their own gatekeeping and have one, standard, set of exams to take. Once you've taken them you don't need to re-do them for every interview, although you may need to stay current.

In programming, every employer has a different, non re-usable, exam.