> [...] people hiring for SAP positions probably will not hire self-taught a SAP developer with no on-the-job SAP experience or without experience working with

> [...] people hiring for SAP positions probably will not hire self-taught a SAP developer with no on-the-job SAP experience or without experience working with enterprise software. They will hire even a fresh graduate with no experience whatsoever, but I think you misunderstand the landscape around the SAP ERP. From what I hear, a company that has SAP deployed is not allowed by the contract to develop their own extensions and modules. Instead, they are to hire external consultancy that has SAP's approval. So it's SAP consultancy shops that would or would not hire a programmer to write for SAP ERP. (I may be wrong here, because ERP systems are very far from my field. I just happened to work in the vicinity of an ERP system a decade ago.) Having that said, two of my friends were hired by such a company. They had no programming experience, they had just finished part-time CS studies (which in my country are tought of as of worse quality than full-time studies), and for both of them the studies were retraining from some other, unrelated field (architecture and HR, respectively). Of course they were tasked with grunt work, exactly as one would expect, but they got into the field of writing for SAP ERP, so it certainly is possible.