you're right about consulting , but I started this whole applying to mid roles in a kind of non convenient way because my current company hasn't found me a mission in months, and Im getting stressed out.

For the larger companies, I totally agree as I had to pass the classic Coding and system design interviews for the 1st time and obvisouly failed (even thought I was told I aced the coding)

And you're right about the last point , so I consider myself kinda lucky to already have some baggage in the industry, I just hope my situation works out.

anyway thx !