My degree has a year of work experience stuck in the middle. I responded to a posting and got into http://www.squiz.net/ http://www.squiz.net/ (small-medium CMS

My degree has a year of work experience stuck in the middle. I responded to a posting and got into http://www.squiz.net/ http://www.squiz.net/ (small-medium CMS development company of about 80 people). During the three years I was there, I fell in with a crazy Russian developer who taught me half of what I know, met @DmitryBaranovsk, and worked under a fellow who, though a bit abrasive, ran a really tight ship (unit tests and automated build, for example). Given it was a student position, the entry requirements weren't terribly strict (PHP, HTML, CSS, ideally some JS). I knew some PHP4 (enough to put up http://insanitymanga.net http://insanitymanga.net ), but only some OO, and definitely no PHP5 (this is all back in 2004). I thought I blew the interview; I was nervous, and the lead dev spent a good five minutes in silence looking through the coding example I brought with me on my laptop, but I got through (with a couple of other students). In any case, I'm not sure there's much to lose but your pride by going for a position you're underqualified for. If you think you can pick it up, then do some prep beforehand to at least get a basic handle on it, and see if they're willing to give you the time of day and have a chat.