Also (if it were a real order) they'd hardly order the caterpillar lunchbox item intending to market it at 6 to 8 year old would they. Maybe they might oder it thinking it can be shifted off to preschool age - but that wasn't the objective and therefore the team failed.
I find it hard to believe every single candidate can be this bad in every single task. They are being set up to fail.
Things like no communication between subteams on decisions that affect the other teams decisions. Having to pay a chef a large fee just to get ingredients and no instruction on how to prepare it. Or consulting focus groups and not being able to act off what they found.
I'm fairly sure none of that used to happen in Apprentices of old.
Except maybe the focus group bit, which I think also happen after the product was made. I mean is it just there to show them what they did wrong and how awkward the presentations are going be!)
if they had presented a (well mentioned) prototype to the age group before creating the actual app or lunch box they would have realised they had it wrong and totally changed it made improvements
Again it annoyed me that Suralan and Co focused on how negative something is when it was really a reaction to a negative thing. (Like the saying there was a restricted number of glasses of water was worse than deciding to restrict the number of glasses last week.)
They mentioned several times it was a bad thing whatsherface said one child said they'd buy the lunchbox. What should be the answer to "how many children would want (their parents) to buy it?" other than "one"?
Why focus on the question being answered truthfully as the failure, rather than on the action that led to only one child wanting it.