I can only tell about my field, which is Physics, and a hard science field. No, it is still increasingly hard to find a job (in US) from what I saw. Even getti

I can only tell about my field, which is Physics, and a hard science field. No, it is still increasingly hard to find a job (in US) from what I saw. Even getting to tenure track is achievement in itself. For example, any major top school (like Caltech, MIT, etc) train as many as one and half to two times the PhD students each year compared to department strength. MIT Physics, for example, intakes roughly ~25 PhD students/year for faculty strength of ~80. That's almost 125 PhD graduating every five year. There is no way all of them would find an academia job. Doing two postdocs is increasingly normal, and I know people doing three-four of them. So yeah, there are surely lot of good people who are sucked into this broken system, and we sure need some fixes to it.