If you have some experience you can point to, say contributions to open source projects, your own personal website (that isn't just a generic blog site) or mayb

If you have some experience you can point to, say contributions to open source projects, your own personal website (that isn't just a generic blog site) or maybe some volunteering for a non-profit or something like that, you can get around it. Well, I guess it depends geographically where you are as well as what sort of position you're applying for. Maybe also consider getting your foot in the door via QA?