I've been rejected from engineering roles for those reasons as well. From my experience, it's just people looking at your resume, rather than actually trying to

I've been rejected from engineering roles for those reasons as well. From my experience, it's just people looking at your resume, rather than actually trying to understand the candidate. In my case it was because I studied design in college (it was actually design + development), and my first roles were mostly front-end. Even though I passed their backend test, they still just treated me based on my resume, and assume I could only do front-end engineering.