If they asked you for what you want as compensation, I would guess it was too much for what you bring to the table.
You never mention what exactly you did, but it sounds like JavaScript and nodejs from your username. I don’t know how often you switched companies but if you switched more than 2 times in your 6 years, there might be a risk of „you build it but you don’t want to maintain it“.
I also got a similar vibe from some of your comments. Some of them sound like „I know the concepts, I build my own better React“.
It’s really not something I would like to hear in a technical interview.
There is less info in this post than on your CV, so please excuse when I read too much into it.
>I don’t know how often you switched companies but if you switched more than 2 times in your 6 years, there might be a risk of you build it but you don’t want to maintain it.
Consultant shops build things for businesses all the time without maintaining them (and businesses pay lots of money for it, way more than an individual candidate), so that shouldn't really be on any hiring manager's mind. Job hopping is a rational response to tech companies unwilling to give raises that match market salaries.
Plus if you have someone that can build things but hasn't maintained them, your company can be their first experience.
I work for a consulting company and we build lot's of applications. You're right, it's much more about building something quickly with a team of experienced devs than it's about maintaining. But they hire a company especially because we have the capacity to still complete the project in the specified time frame, even when devs leave. Also they don't need to hire a whole team and don't have much risk.
I understand the reasoning to want to make more money, but to me job hopping regularly with less than 2-3 years stay, it's a bad sign. It can happen, and I also have seen people who realized two month in a new job that this doesn't work out for them. This is nothing to be ashamed of, but when I see a resume of someone having 5 jobs in 5 years, I probably would pass on them.
But I'm in Germany and maybe that's just me and in the US it's very different.
You never mention what exactly you did, but it sounds like JavaScript and nodejs from your username. I don’t know how often you switched companies but if you switched more than 2 times in your 6 years, there might be a risk of „you build it but you don’t want to maintain it“.
I also got a similar vibe from some of your comments. Some of them sound like „I know the concepts, I build my own better React“.
It’s really not something I would like to hear in a technical interview.
There is less info in this post than on your CV, so please excuse when I read too much into it.