Originally Posted by
HeloBubba53
My experience is that you can submit that LOR during the face to face interview. They don’t really look at LOR’s prior to that. I wouldn’t sweat it. I doubt it will change the likelihood of them calling you for an interview.
This. Your buddy can send it on to his Chief as well. I applied with none, and then presented my 3 internal and 2 external letters upon document collection at my interview.