[philwelch]

Hospitals also hire people who went already through an even more rigorous screening process than even exists in our field just to become eligible to be nurses and doctors.

Once you're an RN or an MD with all the appropriate qualifications, assuming you're not outright faking them, they can be reasonably confident that you are, in fact, a competent nurse or physician and move on from there.

We don't have that, and so we have to spend a lot of time making sure that a prospective candidate even has the basic skills and qualifications of a software engineer.