HR cold-calls and does the profile verification and lets me know that they are looking for a Data Scientist urgently as part of their Analytics team.
I gave them a set of dates that I would be willing to take the call for the telephonic technical round and henceforth asked them to confirm once they talk to the hiring manager.
No intimation, no email confirmation, no phone call confirmation.
The hiring person went on with the technical round after 2 days.
My technical round too was more or less a cold-call. I did let my interviewer know that there was no intimation regarding this but they just gave a deaf ear to my words and told me that I will get to hear from somebody from their team.
As expected, got the reject mail the following day.
My advice : If the hiring team hasn't sent a confirmation for interview and you still go ahead and make a cold-call for a technical round, yet if somebody puts up a decent show and you reject them, you know you're hiring method is wrong and you better change.