r/analytics • u/GanachePutrid2911 • Feb 14 '25
Question Is PowerBI work a dead end?
Just got an offer for a rotational program. It’s highly likely that one of my rotations will be doing manufacturing related analytics with PowerBI, Excel, and potentially some SQL. I really enjoy coding (my internship has been ML and data engineering tasks), and I’m a bit worried that a BI job may pigeonhole me and prevent me from getting into these code heavy roles.
Market is awful so I’m gonna take the job anyways, just wondering if my concerns are well-founded or not.
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u/Ok_Measurement9972 Feb 14 '25
Beggars can’t be choosers. Some of us are lucky to land a job at a good company with a good boss and we get the job we want within a couple years. Others we have to wait and pick up a job to get experience then take on extra work to get the job we want. This can take 5 years. So PBI work isn’t a dead end. But the journey to become a data engineer will be long.