> I'm starting to think that replacing a bachelor requirement for most dev jobs with an associate degree followed by an apprenticeship would be better and cheap

> I'm starting to think that replacing a bachelor requirement for most dev jobs with an associate degree followed by an apprenticeship would be better and cheaper. I was looking into applying to a job at a national lab. Not anything crazy, no HPC or scientific programming, just back office enterprise crap, but they seemed so intent on wanting a degree. I’m not sure places like that in particular that are primarily seen a “scientific” organizations will be willing to ignore credentialism.