I have to agree that in some environments you can see comp sci majors picking on anyone who isn’t part of traditional “software”. I switched from engineering i

I have to agree that in some environments you can see comp sci majors picking on anyone who isn’t part of traditional “software”. I switched from engineering into comp sci at my university and I can safely say that the elitism for software was stoked by the elitism of engineering. While I was in engineering, everyone bragged about how they were going to get “The iron ring” (a thing we give to only engineers in Canada). When I switched over to comp sci, all my old engineering buddies would say to me, “yeah, but you don’t get the ring” like it meant everything. After I graduated, I noticed the comp sci “software” folks didn’t like engineering folks much (especially new grads). When I asked why, they shared similar stories to mine. The engineers and their pumped up pride at my local university had hurt their relation to other fields by being arrogant. I’m not trying to justify this kind of prejudice, but the reasons it happens are fairly obvious to me. It’s sad cause all of us are so similar in our trades and will likely end up doing similar work as well.