India, Aug. 11 -- Manasi Mishra did everything by the book. Growing up in California, she was told that a tech job is the safest way to a six-figure salary. So she learned to code and built her first website when she was still in elementary school. She then went on to major in computer science in college.

"The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary," Mishra, 21, told The New York Times.

But having studied computer science at Purdue University, the Indian-American graduate is struggling to find a tech job in the age of AI.

Mishra said that she had graduated from Purdue University in May without a job offer in hand despite months of sending ...