I also know of 0 PhD students who did this at all, and I am a former PhD student from a program of ~200.
Academia tends to do a poor job preparing graduate students for an actual career outside academia. I spent 2 1/2 years looking for work myself until I taught myself programming and quickly accelerated myself in a career of software engineering.
This is a poorly tapped talent pool - many of these people are some of the smartest people you will ever meet. Academia (usually) does no favors for them professionally in forming connections or informing graduate students, and industry doesn't want to hire them due to inexperience. The situation leaves them to snag whatever job they can, which is equal to a missed opportunity.
Academia tends to do a poor job preparing graduate students for an actual career outside academia. I spent 2 1/2 years looking for work myself until I taught myself programming and quickly accelerated myself in a career of software engineering.
This is a poorly tapped talent pool - many of these people are some of the smartest people you will ever meet. Academia (usually) does no favors for them professionally in forming connections or informing graduate students, and industry doesn't want to hire them due to inexperience. The situation leaves them to snag whatever job they can, which is equal to a missed opportunity.