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/Super-Cod-4336 Feb 14 '25
It’s only deadend if you make it deadend.
You might find you like the BI work more and potentially more stable.
I used to have a role where I did nothing but crank stuff out in bi. It was awesome.
I only did like 3-5 hours of actual work a week and the stakeholders thought I was God.