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Please use the following gist to capture your thoughts, goals, priorities, etc. as outlined by each question. You will be using these questions to help give your mentor a better idea of who you are and want to become as a developer! Please note, this is meant to be a starting point for building your norms with your mentor - you may need to adjust scheduling expecations, communication expectations, etc. when you start working with your mentor!
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Purpose
You will be a contributor in several paired/group project throughout your Turing career working on complex technical challenges. You may be surprised to find out that < 1% of failing projects at Turing are due solely to technical definicines - in fact, the majority of failing projects are due to intrapersonal/team issues. In order to set yourself (and your teammates) up for success, it is critical to clearly communicate and set expectations with your teammates.
This video made reflect on the way I base my decisions towards other people and how others have base their decisions and opinions toward me based on previous experiences and our worldview. I'm aware of the problem I subconsciously knew was there but didn't know what to name it. We are guided by the things we expect to be true in the world. I agree that when we see someone we automatically try to map them and that shapes our conscious which guides our judment and decisions. I understand that fixing this problem isn't an easy task but when we expand the way we view people and look past skin color or race we can mitigate and almost completely get rid of this.
Like I stated it before, I subconsciously knew that this implicit bias was there but didn't know what to call it. I've experienced it first hand being a Mexican-American. I know people have profiled me before and used it to map what was needed to fill in the blank. I really became aware of this