If you have no portfolio, no previous work to show, come from a no name school or don't have a degree, or did very poorly in school, you're absolutely, 100% rig

If you have no portfolio, no previous work to show, come from a no name school or don't have a degree, or did very poorly in school, you're absolutely, 100% right. If you know the fundamentals, you can code, and you can answer LeetCode-style questions in an interview setting, $80-100k with minimal or no experience is certainly doable.