Being a self taught programmer with no formal education (but ~20 years of relevant experience by now) I can relate to this. It can be hard to get hired since co

Being a self taught programmer with no formal education (but ~20 years of relevant experience by now) I can relate to this. It can be hard to get hired since companies may have crazy requirements. But on the other hand, you don't really want to get hired by those companies anyway. My experience is that great companies recognize great people regardless of background.