Hi
Marger,
Great question! If your primary work experience has been in the same company, and the recommenders you solicit can speak to different projects they've supervised you on, then it's perfectly fine to use recommenders from the same company. Again, they should be able to speak to their experience managing you and provide concrete examples.
This article may help in this process. Also, I recommend you include a bullet/sentence in the options essay that addresses why you made the choice.
I am happy to continue the conversation. If interested, please
reach out.
Good luck!
Marger
What's everyone's thoughts about using two people from the same company in order to get my letters of rec? I have only significant experience working at the one company and could get letters from a couple of people at my firm quite easily although they are all my direct manager, managing director, SVP. My work is silo'd and we do not have too much exposure to other areas where I would feel comfortable asking them for recs.
My other option would be to pursue a rec from and extra curricular activity but I am not sure how well that would hold up as it doesn't pertain to a large charity organization or even something that structured that it would resonate (I essentially help coach a women's & kids sports team and could get a good rec from the chairwoman of the club). Would this be stronger than two good recs from the same company and potentially the same department?