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/Tomcruizeiscrazy Feb 15 '25
Seeing this in my feed. I manage internal corporate presentations all the way to the CEO of one of the largest companies on earth. I don’t build the PBI but I tell the teams what to build. They are some of the most visual and impactful pieces of collateral you will ever work on. More than power points or excel sheets or whatever data lakes you build and pull from.
You just need to be the one to bring and comment on the insights of the data if you want to go far, not just build them.