WSJ: Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs, still can't get one; VC Mark Suster calls it scaremongering
msuster · x · 2026-10-18
A WSJ story about a Princeton PhD who applied to 2,300 jobs over two years without success — framing it as a labor-market deep freeze hitting college-educated workers — drew fire from prominent VC Mark Suster, who called it editorial slant: "If somebody with a PhD from Princeton can't get a job in 2 years in 2026, the problem is him." Replies countered that unemployment stats don't capture how much harder engineering job searches have gotten this cycle, sparking a broader debate about whether AI is structurally squeezing white-collar employment.
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