Arctic Shores tasks / Team Sales
Arctic Shores Team Sales practice
You and another sales team in the same company each pick a high or low price every round. Both high pays the company most.
Always free. Built from Arctic Shores' candidate help pages and the account of a candidate who took the real assessment three times (PwC, KPMG and HSBC apprenticeships), checked against what other practice sites report. No recording of the real test is public; screens and wording are ours.
How Team Sales works
- Both teams high: 200 each, 400 for the company. Both low: 50 each. One high and one low: the low team gets 300, the high team nothing.
- Both sources that describe it give the same table. The number of rounds is not confirmed: reports range from 12 to about 20. Practice uses 15.
- The other team reacts to your choices. In practice it starts high and mostly follows what you did last.
- There is no right answer. It is always free to play here.
Time and scoring
About 3 to 5 minutes. Arctic Shores does not say how this task is read. The candidate who priced low every round beat the other team on money, then saw his report at the far 'focus on own needs' end of a scale. Practice shows your total, the company's, and how you responded when the other team went low.
Tips
- Read the setup: both teams work for the same company.
- Low every round wins your column but drags the company total down.
- If the other team keeps going low, a low round now and then can bring it back to high.
Questions
Is Team Sales the prisoner's dilemma?
It has the same shape: each team does better alone by going low, but both do better together by staying high.
What should I pick?
There is no published right answer. Play in a way you could explain in an interview; practice shows what your choices added up to.