Had a similar experience. Google recruiter contacted me about security role on Android team, NFC and mobile payments stuff, sounded good up my alley. Sent programming skills email, I honestly said I suck at coding I work on security design and architecture. I do some coding on my own time but not upto enterprise grade. Quick chat with the next level recruiter, we don't really hire for a specific role but we will put you forward for an interview, iterate I don't code. Interview, guy is quite nice, what do you enjoy, I say what I enjoy, you didn't mention coding in that. That's right. You were put forward for a software engineering role. #facepalm. I'll see if I can get you interviewed by a security guy. Cool. About a month later email, no role for you. Lol.