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As FishingBooker emphasizes transparency as one of its core values, I would like to offer equally transparent and honest feedback regarding my experience in your hiring process. After submitting two voice recordings and my CV, I was invited to the Open Day (second round), which lasted an entire working day and was conducted fully in English. This required me to take a day off work and invest a significant amount of personal time and effort. A few days later, I was informed that I had successfully progressed to the final, third round – the Cultural Fit interview – again conducted entirely in English. During this final interview, I was asked whether I would mind working on adopting a more American accent, as I was told that “our captains communicate better with support agents who have an American accent.” I clearly stated that I was open to improvement and willing to work on it. Despite completing all three stages and expressing flexibility, I was later informed that the owner was consulted about the possibility of an accent-related course and declined, stating that people are needed immediately. This effectively ended my candidacy. I find this outcome highly problematic. Rejecting a qualified candidate after multiple interview rounds — based not on English proficiency, clarity of communication, or professional competence, but on the absence of a native American accent — is, at the very least, discriminatory and deeply unprofessional. Throughout my international career, English proficiency and effective communication were always the standard; never once was a native American accent a requirement. This has not been an expectation in any serious international company I have worked for. FishingBooker often positions itself as the “Booking.com of fishing.” However, with hiring practices such as these, that comparison is difficult to justify. Global companies value diversity, competence, and inclusive communication — not accent-based filtering that borders on linguistic and cultural bias. This approach does not encourage qualified and experienced candidates to apply. On the contrary, it discourages them, as the process requires a substantial investment of time while offering little transparency about non-negotiable criteria that ultimately disqualify them. Candidates who are otherwise highly suitable may never be selected simply because they do not “sound American enough.” If a native American accent is, in fact, a strict requirement, it raises a valid question: why not hire Americans directly? Instead, local candidates are held to an arbitrary standard, while being offered compensation that would hardly attract U.S.-based professionals. I am sharing this feedback not out of bitterness, but out of respect for the value you publicly promote — transparency — and out of genuine concern for the candidate experience and your employer brand. I sincerely hope this feedback will be taken seriously and used to reflect on and improve your hiring practices going forward.

Sastojalo se iz tri kruga. Prvi krug sa hr-om, drugi sa tim liderom i treci sa menadzerom. Ceo proces se odvio online. Prijatni razgovori bez napetosti. Na povratnu informaciju se cekalo do ~3 dana za svaki od krugova.

Razgovor sa hr-om i tehnicki razgovor u istom danu. Hr razgovor sa tipičnim pitanjima gde sebe vidiš za 5 godina... tehnički intervju prelagan, vidi se da ni ispitivač nema neko veliko iskusutvo ali je bilo prijatno. Firma deluje da ne radi zahtevne stvari, s toga i ima smisla da pitanja ne ulaze u neke dubine koje njima ne trebaju. Firma je dobra ako hoćeš da se penzionišeš i ako ti lični razvoj nije bitan. Sa moje strane je delovalo da je sve prošlo korektno ali nema odgovora ni nakon mesec dana, a oglase konstantno obnavljaju.

Prijavio sam se za tri različite pozicije u kompaniji, dok mi je primarni interes bio VIP Customer Support zbog toga što ta pozicija nije uključivala noćne smene. Proces selekcije je počeo kratkim online testom engleskog jezika koji sam uspešno položio bez problema. Nakon toga sam pozvan da izaberem termin za dodatno testiranje engleskog jezika uživo. Na zakazani termin sam putovao iz drugog grada do glavne kancelarije u Lopašu. Po dolasku su me pitali za koju poziciju radim test i nakon toga sam započeo testiranje. Test je bio relativno lak i predviđeno vreme za izradu bilo je 75 minuta. Međutim, nakon otprilike 30 minuta osoba koja je nadgledala test počela je da pokazuje nervozu i nestrpljenje, zbog čega sam požurio i završio test dosta ranije nego što je bilo potrebno. Nakon otprilike nedelju dana obavešten sam da sam prošao i pozvan sam na intervju. Tokom razgovora recruiter mi je predstavio benefite kompanije poput bonusa, trinaeste plate, privatnog zdravstvenog osiguranja, FitPass-a i drugih pogodnosti. Međutim, tada mi je saopšteno da sam na testu imao 87% umesto potrebnih 90%, zbog čega mi ne mogu ponuditi poziciju za koju sam se primarno prijavio, već drugu poziciju koja uključuje rad u tri smene. Za tu poziciju ponuđena je početna plata od 70.000 dinara uz dodatnih 11.000 dinara za gorivo, s obzirom na to da putujem iz drugog grada. Međutim, moji realni mesečni troškovi goriva iznose najmanje oko 15.000 dinara, što praktično znači da bih deo troškova morao sam da pokrivam. Takođe mi je rečeno da svi benefiti postaju dostupni tek nakon probnog rada koji traje čak 9 meseci. Smatram da bi informacije poput početne plate i trajanja probnog rada trebalo jasno predstaviti kandidatima mnogo ranije u procesu selekcije. Na kraju sam izgubio skoro tri nedelje, kao i vreme i novac za dolazak na testiranje i intervjue. Po mom mišljenju, ponuđena plata za 2026. godinu je veoma niska, posebno uz troškove putovanja i rad u smenama.