I'd like to apply for a job at a company I haven't worked yet.
Which is the correct preposition?
- At your company ____ I appreciate(/like) your high standard of quality, your effort to provide a higher standard of life and your global success.
- In your company ____ I appreciate(/like) your high standard of quality, your effort to provide a higher standard of life and your global success.
- About your company ____ I appreciate(/like) your high standard of quality, your effort to provide a higher standard of life and your global success.
(____ stands for the company's name.)
I tried to use Ngram Viewer, but with no success. May be I should use another free corpus. Please tell me if you know one.
(This new question is somehow similar to an old one: "Position in/at/for your company")
Best Answer
It will be easier to determine if you simplify the wording:
First decide what it is that you are modifying with these prepositional phrases. The third one is immediately eliminated. "I like about your company" and "the quality about your company" make no sense. (But, note that it's perfectly fine to say, "What I like about your company is...")
In considering the other two options: If you are talking about your appreciation, I would use "at your company"; if you are talking about the location of the quality, I would use "in your company." Both sound acceptable to my ear in the context of the sentence, although I acknowledge it's a bit subjective.
Looking back at the original sentence, I would use "In your company...", although I profess to not be able to give a great reason why it sounds better to me than "At your company..."