Never really had to deal with interviews as been lucky all my career but recently looking for new work I've had to do a few, it's extremely frustrating. The la

Never really had to deal with interviews as been lucky all my career but recently looking for new work I've had to do a few, it's extremely frustrating. The last one I went through 3-4 hours worth of remote interviews. In the first interview I made it clear I'm in no rush to move, I get payed well, they contacted me, i'm only listening as looking for new interesting work. They where a bit fuzzy about the role/salary saying they are looking for smart people then decide the role for the person etc etc so I said in order not to waste both our time this is my current salary, I'll happily move for that if it sounds interesting, not interested in less, can't afford to live on less. I get to the end of the interviews, recruiter: so where do you want to start negotiation on your salary, then announces a value 30% less than what I am now. After me replying "you want me to take a 30% pay cut, a substantial risk moving job with no reward from the risk and leaving me worse off, I can't accept that", I haven't heard back since. The annoying part is I mentioned several times, if they want me to do more interviews I don't want to get to the end to find out salary range is not in the same ballpark as don't want to do remote skype calls after working all day for nothing. I was assured yes it's fine multiple times. The only thing I can think off is they thought I was bluffing on the salary so thought I'd go for the low ball.