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XING - the right job for you
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Top complaints - extracted from 29 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"linkedin"
7 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t respect settings. 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…" - derSherpa
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"xing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Every decent company gives you a heads up these days when a renewal is due. Not with Xing. They renew automatically and tell you afterwards it is common practice. No grace period, no goodwill cancelation, nothing. There is not a single subs…" - Anger85
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"website"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t join premium. The developers make it difficult to stop payments and they are expensive. 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." - Ned McC
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"start"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Incredibly awful. 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, go…" - wdemon77
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"iphone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Incredibly awful. 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, go…" - wdemon77
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"contacts"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Incredibly awful. 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, go…" - wdemon77
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"better"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crap App. What a waste. I used to be an Xing subscriber but cancelled, then returned after 3-4yrs, still crap after all these years. LinkedIn is 1000% better." - Norse hind
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"update"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don't update - crashes. Updated the app now it crashes immediately. Flashes briefly, crashes right away. Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. iPhone 6S, iOS 9.3.1. Good luck with the fast-follow rerelease." - Xing user in CA
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"ipad"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Katastrophal auf dem iPad. Auf dem iPad funktioniert die App scheußlich. URLs die ins Nirvana führen, Menüs die nur beim schließen und erneuten öffnen vernünftig laden…" - jascha.com
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"company"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Every decent company gives you a heads up these days when a renewal is due. Not with Xing. They renew automatically and tell you afterwards it is common practice. No grace period, no goodwill cancelation, nothing. There is not a single subs…" - Anger85
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"these"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Every decent company gives you a heads up these days when a renewal is due. Not with Xing. They renew automatically and tell you afterwards it is common practice. No grace period, no goodwill cancelation, nothing. There is not a single subs…" - Anger85
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"subscription"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Every decent company gives you a heads up these days when a renewal is due. Not with Xing. They renew automatically and tell you afterwards it is common practice. No grace period, no goodwill cancelation, nothing. There is not a single subs…" - Anger85
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Katastrophal auf dem iPad
Auf dem iPad funktioniert die App scheußlich.
URLs die ins Nirvana führen, Menüs die nur beim schließen und erneuten öffnen vernünftig laden…
URLs die ins Nirvana führen, Menüs die nur beim schließen und erneuten öffnen vernünftig laden…
Scam
Every decent company gives you a heads up these days when a renewal is due. Not with Xing. They renew automatically and tell you afterwards it is common practice. No grace period, no goodwill cancelation, nothing. There is not a single subscription I have or I know of that still uses this practice. Just because it’s not forbidden by law (yet) doesn’t mean it’s any good. It’s just super poor customer service and greed in its purest form.
Don’t subscribe to anything premium
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
Don’t join premium. The developers make it difficult to stop payments and they are expensive
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.
Cannot login
Signed up and tried login.
It keep saying “your session expired”,
Cannot use app.
It keep saying “your session expired”,
Cannot use app.
Doesn’t respect settings
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.
Incredibly awful
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 the app that “it’s great”; otherwise it would only let you “send feedback” since the rating option disappears; (3) every time you open the app 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 the app are from Deutsch-speaking countries, and I’m sure the reason is this app 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 the app for no more than 20 minutes in total, which happened after seeing a link for Xing 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.
Disappointing
It barely even works in my iPhone 5s. It is hanging all the time and working with it, is almost impossible.
Crap App
What a waste. I used to be an Xing subscriber but cancelled, then returned after 3-4yrs, still crap after all these years. LinkedIn is 1000% better.
Don't update - crashes
Updated the app now it crashes immediately. Flashes briefly, crashes right away. Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. iPhone 6S, iOS 9.3.1. Good luck with the fast-follow rerelease.
Stürzt immer ab
Die App lässt sich auf dem iPad Mini 2 unter iOS 9 nicht starten, insoweit unbrauchbar!!!
Crash
app crashes all the time. Don't recommend it, though it has a better design than the previous version.
Can't change profile?
Cannot update or change profile on app.
Xing
No one I know uses Xing. Most use LinkedIn. Needs more features, (news, etc. )
No, no, no
Want to connect to your account for the first time? This app launches Safari. Want to reply to an invitation that you will not attend an event? This app 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.
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.
Crash city!
It does not start it just crashes... FIX THIS!!!
Horibble!
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.
Disappointing...
Downloaded straight after receiving the newsletter. Less features than the (actually well done) web site - no unique features. Not very rewarding. Will remove immediately.
Enttäuschende app
Sehr eingeschränkte Funktion. Umständliche Navigation, nicht besonders user-friendly. Man kann den newsfeed per app nicht beeinflussen (z.B. mit unfollows), oder zumindest kann ich nicht herausfinden wie es geht... Zeitverschwendung.
Irritating
This App 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.
No match for LinkedIn
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).
Nothing really interesting
The app 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 XING website is a lot better than the app.
I hope they do some working on it, the product they sell is worth more than this.
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 XING website is a lot better than the app.
I hope they do some working on it, the product they sell is worth more than this.
Almost like LinkedIn
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, Xing needs to catch up with the competitors.
Need to see my profile? Check LinkedIn under my name.
Thank you
Linkedin is much better, Xing needs to catch up with the competitors.
Need to see my profile? Check LinkedIn under my name.
Thank you
Message Problem
Can't send or receive messages with latest update!
Sorry?
No iPad Version? Really? Fail!
Basic
Basic but ok. Lots of features to come I hope. Nice simple interface though.
Good start but lots more to do
No replacement for the browser / online version. If this app is aiming to compete with the likes of LinkedIn for iPhone, it has a long way to go.
A long Way to go
Once again Facebook Leads the Pack. Quality and pacewise.
At least you should have the funcs that fb offers.
At least you should have the funcs that fb offers.
Does not work as advertised
Keep getting the "connection to the server failed message".
Sentiment summary
71%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
26%
Negative (1-2★)