If you have been generating value for a business through software you have developed you are clearly a software developer. Several things can be happening : *

If you have been generating value for a business through software you have developed you are clearly a software developer. Several things can be happening : * The companies you are applying for are testing for software developers with a different skill set ; * The companies you are applying have bad interview process and can't test for software developers that would generate money for them. Interview is broken in software in general I think.