Recruiters throw a very broad net. They reach out to everyone. At one point, I’ve gotten emails for software dev positions from Google, Microsoft and Facebook. I graduated from a no name school decades ago, my light LinkedIn profile showed a list of no name companies where I was just your average SaaS CRUD C# developer.

I wouldn’t get passed a phone screen without prep for a software dev position.

I only recently ended up at a FAANG as a technical consultant. Even then, the recruiter reached out to me about a software engineering position and I asked about openings in the cloud division.