Microsoft SDE 2 expecting offer

First of all thank you so much for valuable advice from experienced people like you. But I have 2 counter questions:

1. Why do you think ms will not pay upto my expectations? Because no faang background or service based background?
2. If I don't have any offer in hand, do I have negotiating power? I want to negotiate on stocks instead of salary components. Will I be able to do that?

Your advice is highly appreciated!

You were right

Microsoft firmware Interview experience

Round 1 (Screening round): Sr Eng

Difference between spi vs I2c?

How will you detect transmission errors in SPI?

How SPI is full duplex?

Set width code (bit manipulation)

How two cores can communicate with each other using shared memory?

Round 2 (coding): Sr Eng

Bit manipulation for flip bit.

Inline vs macro

Write a fun to Set p bits from v value into n position of input integer

Round 3 (coding): Sr Eng

Bit manipulation: Set width

Reverse words in string

How interrupts are handled in Linux kernel?

Round 4 (behavioural + coding): Manager

Linked list palindrome

How two cores can communicate with each other?

How do you handle conflicts with teammates?

Round 5 - technomanegerial (behavioural + coding): Director

Find the max occurring integer in an array.

Time, when you failed and came back successfully.

Thanks 👍