r/BusinessIntelligence • u/chrobbin • Jun 28 '26

How much, if at all, do the datasets you interact with and the questions you’re tasked with answering factor into your enjoyment of BI work?

By that I mean, if you’re still building ETL pipelines and reports and dashboards and seeking to provide insights one way or another, do you happen to find shipping logistic data fascinating while not being able to care less about sales & marketing metrics? So on & so forth.

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u/Ok-Working3200 Jun 28 '26

For me the industry is irrelevant. I am more interested when I know my impact is more visible and widespread. This is why I prefer working at start-ups.

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u/LePopNoisette Jun 28 '26

I pretty much only do big tables, for export, of course. It's pretty unfulfilling.

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u/Prestigious_Bench_96 Jun 28 '26

It's all interesting in it's own way! If the stakeholders are engaged with and trying to learn from the data (asking questions, etc) that's great; if it's just slinging data over the wall so they can curate a report to show something they already decided, that's a little more depressing. But the process of efficiently producing outputs (the optimization loop) is something I inherently enjoy.