Applied through a referral and after a phone screening with the recruiter who was just reading technical machine learning questions and typing my answers without understanding what was going on, I got to the next round of phone interview with two hiring managers. There was no one single modeling question or real data science question. It was all questions about databases and general questions about how to differentiate legal names from business names (hint: find inc. plc,..ect). Coding questions were also irrelevant except for one SQL question. I don't think they actually need a DS or perhaps don't even know what a DS job is. After 16 days I didn't get feedback from them, I reached out to the recruiter who said they moved forward with other candidates, which was expected as they obviously don't need a PhD level candidate, however they should have at least provided the outcome of the interview.