Having obtained a PhD myself, I would say its definitely helped in my career, though that is largely because my industry work is related to my PhD; people tend

Having obtained a PhD myself, I would say its definitely helped in my career, though that is largely because my industry work is related to my PhD; people tend to assume I'm an expert in this super complicated thing and they just need someone around who understands it as some kind of insurance or person to turn to in a crisis, even though with the PhD itself I was working in a niche within a niche within a niche which won't really help the company. Obviously during the PhD I got a working knowledge of the whole field, but I often feel as if a lot of what the company uses me for is pretty obvious and googleable. Very, very rarely do I actually use my PhD expertise. I definitely think if you work as a software engineer in tech a PhD would have too large an opportunity cost vs just working for it to be worth it, especially in the US where PhDs typically last ~5 years. Aside from that, I think I was lucky to have a supervisor who taught me how to make good presentations. I definitely think my presentations are a lot better than most peoples in industry and that's benefitted my career too. Though, I've also seen very many terrible presentations in academia so I'm probably just lucky there. I'm not sure its the case PhDs typically give better presentations. My LaTeX CV looks incredible though :) (though I highly doubt that will ever affect whether or not I get a particular job).