Esurance Java Developer interview questions

3 rounds of interview 1st HR interview 2nd Technical phone interview 3rd in 1:1 person interview with 3 people onsite HR: Usual stuff. If you are not local, are you willing to relocation to the Sacramento area for this position (some assistance would be provided)? What are your salary expectations? Why are you looking for in a new job? What motivated you to apply for this particular position? What are your most important strengths and improvement areas? Technical phone interview How does garbage collection work Some xml related questions Collections -Trees, maps linkedlist, array, etc which one to use when, which is faster, etc How to use syncronized HashMap Onsite 1st Manager: Similar to HR, given a choice between front end and backend which place would be my preference, description of team and work description, etc Next 2 technical: dont remember all of them here are most of them types of ejb java basics collections xml - jaxb and jaxp how to marshal/unmarshal and a object with null value using only jaxb api (my guess is for serialization later) binary trees - explain and with the given set of numbers balance it