I hire in a field where a degree in that discipline is a filtering criteria. However, we make exceptions for self learned people who have great sample of high

I hire in a field where a degree in that discipline is a filtering criteria. However, we make exceptions for self learned people who have great sample of high class work. So my recommendation is build your portfolio of open source contributions or work that you may even have done pro bono. Impress the hell out the hiring managers by sheer quality of your work. Help them to decide that they will not be taking any risk by hiring you.