The PhD track in industry has high variability. If you do something unrelated to your PhD, it's likely that you won't gain much benefit from it. If you do som

The PhD track in industry has high variability. If you do something unrelated to your PhD, it's likely that you won't gain much benefit from it. If you do something related to the PhD e.g. ML, DBs, Economics, Statistics etc. then it can be a huge leg up. However there may only be so many options related to your PhD.