That's really weird. They reached out to me to do R&D with them and the work I did at that point in my life couldn't be further from what they do. I dont think

That's really weird. They reached out to me to do R&D with them and the work I did at that point in my life couldn't be further from what they do. I dont think there's very much rhyme or reason to getting people to contact you for a sw engineering position. I've had Google, Amazon, Stanford University and a host of other prestigious places reach out to me and go in good directions. On the other hand, I have never heard so much as a peep from Microsoft or Intel despite dozens of applications. I had friends that got into Microsoft right out of college and their programming ability wasn't above average nor were their social skills that much better. I have friends that I worked with that were at Intel and they complained that they could have done their job straight out of high school; conversely, most of my work up until recently required graduate level math.