Chefs actually are subject to being tasted before hire. It doesn’t happen in a 1hr interview, no. But the owners of a restaurant either know the chef’s cooking from previous experience or invote them in to cook.

Doctors go through excessive amounts if additional schooling and board certification to prove they know how to e.g. cut open a body.

Maybe you’re asking for the software industry to become more formalized in skillset requirements? Or maybe engineers should bring their portfolio instead?

> Chefs actually are subject to being tasted before hire. It doesn’t happen in a 1hr interview

Exactly. What you're describing is more closer to doing a take home and then explaining it.

> Doctors go through excessive amounts if additional schooling and board certification to prove they know how to e.g. cut open a body.

So not part of the interview? It's not like there aren't certification in the industry, e.g. AWS, Microsoft, Java, etc etc.

> Maybe you’re asking for the software industry to become more formalized in skillset requirements? Or maybe engineers should bring their portfolio instead?

I doubt "formalization" helps (see above, some of it exists and those are off the mark just as well). In essence leet code is the "formalized" requirement. It's just a bad 1.

I'm asking to come back to common sense.

Again, doctors don't cut open a body live as part of the interview. So even if I have my AWS certifications (equivalent of your example) the interviewer will and still does ask me to do a live system design interview. How is that the same?