That used to be the standard view of devs in the US as well, but has likely improved somewhat (hopefully) with the rise of Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc.

That used to be the standard view of devs in the US as well, but has likely improved somewhat (hopefully) with the rise of Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. This was brought home (pun intended?) to me back in 2015 when my wife and I were vetting realtors for the sale of our house. One of the realtors, actually an 'elderly' husband and wife, after being told (by me) that I was a software developer proceeded to share that they had retired from working in HR at a software company and went on with 'oh my, don't you know how crazy and entitled those ridiculous software developers are!' That wasn't their first misstep, and we went with a different realtor.