HFA Architecture + Engineering interview questions

I was lead on by the internal recruiter of this company by telling me I had all the qualifications they were looking for as well as the years of experience they were looking for just to get ghosted by them after I told them what my expected salary was. My ask wasn't even exceedingly high, definitely within average market rate of someone who holds an engineering degree and has several years worth of experience working in the industry. My takeaway from this is that they're looking to hire good talent for bottom of the barrel salary. Wouldn't ever waste my time interviewing here again.