<prompt> Human: Im very flustered right now. Over the last couple of weeks, I have been interviewing at a marketing agency. Im just about to graduate from my undergrad, where I got a BS in Business Administration. I have years of marketing experience, through internships and extracurriculars. The interview process considered of technical questions, behavioral questions, and general conversational questions. I met with about four different managers at the company. I was actually incredibly taken aback by how low my offer was. I had been interviewing at startups whose salary range was like 6k higher than what this company is offering me, even though they are much older and bigger and have more prestigious clients. So I schedule a phone call with the hiring manager to talk about salary. I thought I was pretty well prepped with how to go about it--and focused on communicating my value. Well, as soon as I start talking about my value and what I feel I am worth based on my skills and experiences, she challenges me. She says something along the lines of Okay, how about we get a better sense of what your skills and value is? I said sure and she immediately starts asking me what I can only describe as case questions. They werent even all from a marketing standpoint, they were business consulting type questions that definitely arent in my job description. I obviously got flustered and tried my best to answer, but I didnt do a great job. She then told me that, because of how I answered, she feels like the offer she gave me still matches my value. I hung up the phone and told her I needed some time to consider. What the hell do I do?  <response>: I have years of marketing experience, through internships and extracurriculars. AKA - not the real business world where the stakes are higher.They werent even all from a marketing standpoint, they were business consulting type questions that definitely arent in my job description. Your lack of experience and exposure to the real world of business is what makes you less valuable as a new grad. Your years of experience isnt the kind of experience that builds wisdom for autonomous decision making in the business world. This is why she asked you these questions and what her basis is for offering you less.In a couple of years, you WILL have a lot more of that business wisdom and employers will have more confidence in you. Maybe youll climb up in this company. Maybe youll go get a better job somewhere else. Your sense of entitlement is more warranted at least a couple years down the line, though. Not today, before you even have your degree in hand.Edited to add: this is just what was important to THAT hiring manager at THAT company. Its not uncommon, but there are also loads of other companies out there that dont take this approach. 