I found a job shortly after residency (over half of my class matched last year and a good 10% or so do fellowships or industry) and on our school's graduate survey only about 10% put "To Be Determined" for their immediate plans after graduation. My only difficulty finding a job was due to moving into a saturated area, but I still got interviews for "clinical" positions and had an outpatient offer. My impression is that joblessness is not common for my class, and it probably helps going to an older established school.
Could you clarify what you mean by the whole CPJE cheating scandal? As far as I know, the only confirmed person was a UCSD student but people were accusing various schools here and on Reddit.
You are right, the recent percentages have been lower:
Examination Pass Rates - California State Board of Pharmacy
I think our APPEs and training prepared us well for residency, but not necessarily board exam knowledge. It was relatively new my year for the school to provide RxPrep to us and they have made a lot of changes to our review course at the end of school. When the revamped 3-year curriculum students start graduating, we will see if all the changes they made pay off in terms of board exam pass rates. I personally like a lot of the changes they have made to the curriculum itself (all Pass/No Pass, integrated blocks, earlier longitudinal IPPEs, "synthesis weeks" for material review, etc.) regardless of debate about the 4-year to 3-year change.