> Surgeons have to do a 7 year residency before they get hired. There's nothing remotely comparable for software engineers.

Yet software engineers with 7 years of experience are still assumed to be fakers.

Well there are reputable institutions who will vouch for the surgeons experience. Literally anyone can put that they have 7 years experience as a software developer on their cv

There are reputable institutions who will vouch for the software engineer's experience, namely their previous employers. You can verify previous employment. The previous employer might not say anything else about the candidate, but they can certainly verify that the CV is not just invented.

> Well there are reputable institutions who will vouch for the surgeons experience. Literally anyone can put that they have 7 years experience as a software developer on their cv

The reputable institution is called their previous employer(s). If someone has worked for a recognized company for 7 years writing production code, that's the same as the surgeon having done those 7 years in a reputable hospital.