"Another senior UX designer in healthcare-electronics manufacturing echoed this point and suggested using grassroots efforts to create partnerships with already respected staff to mitigate the challenge:

'What I do is usually I find somebody who can…help me out...Maybe they have more say in that area (of expertise) and then I just partner with them and they help me…bring my idea forward. Because I'm new. It seems like (company name redacted) has a culture of "if…you haven't been here (for a long time), you don't know what you're talking about.' "