r/cscareerquestions • u/Trumpet_Life Web Developer • 9h ago

Experienced Microsoft Power Platform career shift

Hey everyone, looking for some outside perspective on an issue I'm facing with work.

I’ve been at my company for about 5 years, working in C# .NET and Angular, with some Azure sprinkled in mostly for logging purposes.

A few months ago, management informed us that our product will be rebuilt in Power Platforms with a target go live date this time of year in 2027. We will all be starting training in the next few months.

I’m pretty stressed about my marketability. From what I gather, Power Platform is heavily low-code/no-code, and with AI already shifting how software is built, I’m worried that spending the next couple of years in a drag and drop system is going to tank my resume. Sure, having a CS background helps build cleaner and more scalable solutions within the tool, but does anyone actually respect Power Platform experience for a traditional software engineering role?

Is this a massive career detour, or am I overreacting? Angular is already dated and I've heard nothing but complaints and annoyances about Power BI, so that doesn't instill confidence in this announcement.

I would love to hear from anyone who has made a similar shift or hires devs with this background.

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u/tuck5649 8h ago

They’ll need you for the migration. Would they need developers for the project after?

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u/Trumpet_Life 4h ago

Yes, they've told us we will all continue working on the product after the migration is completed.

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u/GonzoLove2000 7h ago

I work in a blended environment using Power Platform.

It can be super rewarding because you can build impressive applications with lots of features fast. It stinks because a lot of people don’t understand the licensing well enough to adopt it.

Also a lot of terrible ass devs hide behind the Sharepoint/Power Platform Dev and are only useful in a handful of situations.

As for advice if they are committing to a fully premium environment with dataverse stick with it you can build custom connectors and components that are high level programming still if not and they trying to use the free + Sharepoint storage look to bail the complexity is so low you will get undercut when they want to save money.

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u/Mast3rCylinder 36m ago

This is not good for you. It will make your resume not worth to look at and with 5 years in C# and angular you can do much more.

Start study and begin to interview

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