I think I might know what the OP means by respect. You see it in Thai dev recruitment ads, they sometimes mandate developers to be 27 years old or younger, the implication seems to be that if you are still a developer by the time you're 28, then there must be something wrong with you. It can be seen as something akin to an admin role, for which more than two years experience would be pointless.
I never experienced that in London, quite the opposite, devs have a mystic status as the person who probably earns more than anyone else, doing something no one understands and still wears a t-shirt to work.
I do see the low respect attitude in Paris a little though (or perhaps it's simply budget constraints). The best development is the cheapest, for instance there are a lot more react native gigs here where they want one person to do both an iOS and an Android app, and the contract is for 3 months. I don't touch those with a barge pole because they'll end up with junk that barely works of course
I never experienced that in London, quite the opposite, devs have a mystic status as the person who probably earns more than anyone else, doing something no one understands and still wears a t-shirt to work.
I do see the low respect attitude in Paris a little though (or perhaps it's simply budget constraints). The best development is the cheapest, for instance there are a lot more react native gigs here where they want one person to do both an iOS and an Android app, and the contract is for 3 months. I don't touch those with a barge pole because they'll end up with junk that barely works of course