No, that's nearly every company. But if there's 10 software engineers working with 50 MBA's who drive the business, none of them can tell the difference and tre

No, that's nearly every company. But if there's 10 software engineers working with 50 MBA's who drive the business, none of them can tell the difference and treat you as such, which happens more often than not outside of a tech company. They are the ones making the company money, and you are the programmer doing that "easy programming stuff for IT nerds". It's not that rare of a situation