Why is it that software engineers seem to get so little respect?
This does not apply to everyone but I have experienced this.

They get just as much respect as everybody.

@Pyjong , that implies that no one gets enough respect that they deserve.

@AngryDev9981 Erm no. That was supposed to deny your premise. sry..

Is this about titles?

@Demolishun not titles. It is all about fair play and back biting and office politics.

@molaram , non technical managers think that writing code is easy as a piece of cake.

@AngryDev9981 Ah, gotcha, I have been lucky to not experience that bias. I feel for you.

Y2K. That massive money grab fundamentally changed the relationship between technical people and business people.

"most people", which is your average mom and pop, have no real comprehension what a software engineer does in the first place, not like doctors, electricians, authors, musicians and have have ye.

It needs to have a kind of place in society without having to piggyback on being an engineer (I am certainly not an engineer) or going the consultant way, even though you may not be a consultant.

@Ubbe , there are people in IT firms who think typing is programming. but they can't type it themselves.