XING – the right job for you Reviews

by Wdemon77

I am startled to see that such apps still do exist. This seems is one of the worst, most deceitful apps. Literally taking users for fools. Not even sure where to start so I’ll take it from the end: (1) if you want to delete your account, good luck with that, the option doesn’t exist on the iPhone app; (2) if you want to give a low rating, you first have to tell XING that “it’s great”; otherwise it would only let you “send feedback” since the rating option disappears; (3) every time you open XING you have to sign in which shows what a poorly designed app this is; (4) the Premium option, asking for money, pops up incredibly often, proving thy have no clue how to make money; (5) all my contacts shown on XING are from Deutsch-speaking countries, and I’m sure the reason is XING doesn’t even matter outside of these countries; (6) no jobs are “recommended” when I click on the Jobs section; (7) keep in mind this feedback is given after logging in only for the second time and after using XING for no more than 20 minutes in total, which happened after seeing a link for this app on a law firm website and being curious about it since I never heard of it before. Now I know there are many reasons I never heard about it before today. Obviously I’ll have to waste more time with trying to delete my account on their website.

by Bbbbaaaddd

Signed up and tried login.
It keep saying “your session expired”,
Cannot use app.

by Xing User

If I could give it 0 stars I would. Pretty meaningless app offering far less than the website. Hopefully this is just a beta that should have never been released.

by DerSherpa

Continues to push notifications to me for things I have configured it not to. Loading times are dreadful, and the inability to do basic things like open the profile of someone that has sent you a message or looked you up, without paying for a subscription, is an unacceptable decade-old revenue trick. It’s a far second to LinkedIn but unfortunately embedded with recruiters in Germany.

by TLColes

Want to connect to your account for the first time? XING launches Safari. Want to reply to an invitation that you will not attend an event? XING again launches Safari for you to again sign in.

Drawing from LinkedIn's model and the ever impressive Facebook app, there were solid examples to mimic to create an intuitive, simple experience for the busy professional user. This is surprisingly poor.

by Wunne

Downloaded straight after receiving the newsletter. Less features than the (actually well done) web site - no unique features. Not very rewarding. Will remove immediately.

by Chipoosh.com

It barely even works in my iPhone 5s. It is hanging all the time and working with it, is almost impossible.

by Ned McC

Once they have your credit card information, they bill you with very expensive charges and do not have a process to quit on their app nor website.

by Praveen Kuppusamy

They don’t notify your renewal by email and suddenly take huge money. But they have time to send 100s of marketing email. This is proper cheating. Hope the company goes down due to this cheating policy so called in the name of subscription

by Baerbaerbaer100

XING is irritating, to say the least. It may be a reflection of the business model of the company, though. You can't invite and add contacts but you have to select contacts from a pre-digested list. Bizarre.

by Ee2201

XING does the basic stuff, and navigation is easy, but there is really nothing "wow" worth talking about.
Synchronizing contacts would be a good place to start, but there are many more things that can be done to be ahead of their main competitor whose name starts with an L
The this app website is a lot better than XING .
I hope they do some working on it, the product they sell is worth more than this.

by Andreasinusa

Almost the same app, only difference is, that you are not able to update your profile information and it is not known as much as LinkedIn here in the USA.
Linkedin is much better, this app needs to catch up with the competitors.
Need to see my profile? Check LinkedIn under my name.
Thank you

by MartinH.666

App is non-intuitive and ads/upgrade spam annoying. Only use it when I have to (e.g. when business contacts are not on LinkedIn).

by Lodoberlin

Facebook has shown how an iPhone app for communities should look like. this app did a first step in the same direction and brings basic functionality (addressbook, messages and network news) to the iphone. However, they should add more functionality like calendar and improve convenience to to reach the same level.

by MILE.089

This doesn't really offer anything more than the iPhone optimized web page (or the web app respectively) does, which is pretty disappointing -- they kind of missed the goal here...

Also it's pretty sad that the devs providing an app for a German based community system seem to be too lazy to actually include German localization...! :(

For now I'm sticking with the web app, until they come out with a serious native iPhone application...this is not it...!

by BHL USA

Very nice app. Very helpful.

by Ldjdhszubv

Lots of stuff is taken from facebook,but that is ok as it is really useful that way! Now it is a real networking app, unlike the previous version of it.

by Keyman58

When I originally signed up several years ago I received all in English. Please adjust my version.

by Alexandr Tujicov

Have paid for premium acc, but received no access,...

by EC Creative

XING is designed superbly making it very easy to use! I can't wait till more features are included, it is just a matter of time! this app are definitely moving in the right direction with the iPhone app! Great work!

by !This Nickname Is Not Taken

Since I installed, every now and then a random group I am subscribed to turns to "beta" status.

This means the group now appears in a "groups beta" section of XING , and you receive an e-mail notifications for every single comment in the group. For large groups this could easily render your inbox unusable.

XING doesn't allow to toggle mail notifications, nor does it allow to unsubscribe from groups.

All notifications via email do contain an unsubscribe link. However, the link leads to a full blown website which isn't usable on a phone.