The position is for a new department currently without clients and no backlog of work to do. The position is right hand person to top person in charge of the department. The position involves bringing in clients, maintaining clients, project management, billing, proposal writing, budgeting, building a department, marketing, attending events after hours and on weekends, entertaining clients (such as taking them on trips), promoting the company, volunteering at events, managing team of staff (engineers and designers, admin, interns), performing the engineering works, QC... so everything. The hiring manager did most of the talking, he asked me the following questions: Tell me about yourself. Do you know ICPR 4? Do you have any questions? I am always wary when an engineering firm doesn’t ask me technical questions considering the position is a technical role. I was informed that a “very good” offer had been extended to a young engineer who will be working for me. (From what I can tell, she did not accept the offer... keep reading maybe you can guess why.) I was told I will not be able to make hiring decisions regarding staff who will be working for me. I received a very low ball offer for the amount of responsibilities and expectations for the position. I was initially told salary is negotiable but when it came time for negotiation, I was just told no, even when I told them their offer is less than my current salary at my current job that has much less responsibilities.