Amazon Software Engineer interview questions

1. what are final, finalize and finalizer in java? 2. why cant you just use "==" instead of "equals"? 3. You are given a series of XML file.How will you parse the XML and convert to a java object?

I applied for an internship on Amazon's website. A few weeks later I received an email asking to schedule a phone interview with blocks of times. I replied to it and later received an email indicating the times of 2 45-minute interviews. Both interviews were very similar. The interviewers told me about the company and why they liked working there. I was able to ask them some questions to see how they felt about Amazon. For the technical portions, they would ask the question and I would repeat it back to them to ensure that I understood it. Most of the questions were based off the ones from this website. I was allowed to put the phone down and then type out the answer to the question on a PC using an IDE which made things a lot easier compared to coding it on paper. When I was done coding I sent the code to the interviewer who would review it with me and have me walk them through my thought processes. They would suggest ideas for improvement and seemed very helpful.