I hate to cast doubt on the guy, but he seems to have based the entire article on his own personal experience. So we have one side of the story from the most pa

I hate to cast doubt on the guy, but he seems to have based the entire article on his own personal experience. So we have one side of the story from the most partial participant. Despite claiming to have approached the problem scientifically, he's only considered a sample size of one. If he's writing an article about this perceived societal issue, why not broaden the scope beyond himself? What percentage of CS PhD's are unable to find employment? What about Stanford CS Ph.D.s? Further, I encountered a fairly high proportion of people in grad school who had, for one reason or another, difficult personalities (heck, this probably applies to myself). How do we know he isn't bombing the interviews for such a reason? We don't. That said, it sounds like his graduate work was performed in an area that's irrelevant to industry. Despite acknowledging this, it sounds like he believes that this work alone (and the academic reward it received) should qualify him to work. He needs to realize that many employers don't think this way. They don't make the leap "He did X, so certainly he can do Y for us". That's just the way it is, and the sooner he realizes that and refocuses his attention towards the employers needs, (rather than his prior solution to an unrelated need), the better off he'll be.