Software is just automation. You need to know problem domain to get any respect. Traders in Hedge Funds will always get more respects than quants. Physicists

Software is just automation. You need to know problem domain to get any respect. Traders in Hedge Funds will always get more respects than quants. Physicists and Electronics engineers in Semi industry will always get more respect than software engineers. Sales guys will get more respect than programmers in companies like EMC or VMWare. Etc.