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If you have a high paying position that doesn’t require a license or certification to work in then you’re going to attract a lot of frauds, so these kinds of interviews are necessary.

Doctors need a license, and even so, you still hear about people who are found out to be frauds years later.

If software development didn’t have technical interviews the field would be full of people who wouldn’t know anything about programming, but who would call themselves developers anyway.