QuickOneP

> I can tell you what the bias might be - people with other backgrounds might treat software engineering and programming as equals, and thus have very vague idea of things like system reliability, scalability, failover tactics, deployments, etc., jumping at the quickest dirtiest obvious solution. Steer the conversation in a way where people become cognizant of your knowledge of application architecture and system-level design.

Is that really true? If anything in my experience it's most programmers who look at jumping at the quickest dirtiest obvious solution. We have to fight as sysadmins to get them to do things right. But that's just my experience where I work. Things could certainly be very different at a tech company or something.