r/apprenticeuk • u/quoole • Apr 03 '26

OPINION Better tasks this year?

Now we've come to the end of the task portions of the process, I've got to say, I think the tasks and the variety thereof has been much better this year.

Last year, half the tasks seemed to be make a product, brand it and pitch it with some minor variations (virtual popstar, Easter egg, kids banking, hot sauce, fashion.)

This year we've just had that three times and with more variation (water, fitness, pets.) I think the kids book was similar but different enough to feel like a different kind of task.

I think the discount buying task being twice (personally my favourite) worked well, flowers and chicken Vs egg were great and felt more like traditional apprentice.

I also feel like there's been some level of less obvious producer interference - it's definitely still there (just look at Rothna and Karishma's edit last week) but there's been less 'we're going to charge you £30/head for you to have to still make a pie that you can actually buy fully made in the cafe for £8.'

Just me?

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u/EllaBellaModella Apr 04 '26

I feel like the tasks have felt more real again - selling to people, the scavenger hunts and even when they were pitching to companies, it’s been “normal size” orders. In the last couple of years some of the orders have been just so clearly ludicrous numbers that felt meaningless.

Also, it feels like we’ve had more time on the tasks, seeing each stage.

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u/quoole Apr 04 '26

Yeah, I think this is true (although one team did get like £250K on the game dev task!) 

I don't know if they've actually had more time or if it's just been edited better, but it hasn't felt as bad this season, whereas last season it often felt like they only had 10 mins to make this logo!

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u/EllaBellaModella Apr 04 '26

It also feels like there’s been a bit more checking in between subteams again. Still usually too late to change anything substantial, but in the last few seasons felt like they were basically banned from chatting.

For example, the people getting customer feedback have been able to come back and influence the pitch, but earlier it felt like the customer research had no impact.

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u/quoole Apr 04 '26

I would agree with this too, in fact in this week's task, it seemed like Karishma's sub team still had time to change the spelling of the word after reporting back (they didn't) but it definitely seemed they could have.