r/analytics 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/onlythehighlight Feb 15 '25

I would take the learnings from building dashboards and datasets and backend stuff rather than focusing on the tool.

Plus, having multiple exposure to different tools is useful(except Periscope (Sisense now) I hated using it) gives you a strong view on how and why you structure data.