For a time while I was working at Google I nursed the idea of transferring to the natural language processing / language modeling areas, but I only have a bache

For a time while I was working at Google I nursed the idea of transferring to the natural language processing / language modeling areas, but I only have a bachelors in linguistics whereas it seems like they strongly prefer PhDs. Linguistics PhDs can pretty much teach linguistics or go into another field. It would not be hard for Google to find a couple hundred of them and entice them to join up.