Hire Power BI Developer Internship — the employer’s brief

None professionally, and that is the point. What you should expect is evidence: something built, run or fixed involving Power BI Desktop or Power BI Service, that they can talk about in depth. Screen on reading an existing codebase before changing it and data model design: star schema over one flat table; treat everything else on the list as trainable during the term.

Yes, within a scoped brief. Ship one reviewed, merged change that goes to production during the term is achievable in a term with weekly review, and it is genuine output rather than a training exercise. What does not work is open-ended ownership of anything with production consequences — keep the judgement calls with the reviewer and the execution with the intern.

It is the bottom of the working band, and appropriate for a smaller city or a shorter commitment. In Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai or the NCR, expect to be closer to ₹31,500 for the same skills — you are competing with every other employer for the same few candidates. Decide where in the ₹12,500–₹31,500 band you sit before the first interview rather than during the offer call.

For a first pass, yes. Ask "When would you write a measure instead of a calculated column?" and judge whether the answer is specific and consistent — you are checking for the single clearest signal of real Power BI experience versus a certificate, which does not require you to know the subject. A Power BI practitioner should still take the second round, because at that point you are assessing depth rather than authenticity.

Twelve weeks is the practical minimum for output in this skill; three to six months is where most Indian programmes settle because it spans a semester break or a final-semester project. Under eight weeks you are paying for onboarding and getting a certificate ceremony. If the project cannot fit the time, shorten the project rather than the learning.

Yes, and the difference is what you must provide rather than what they must have. A developer brief promises build work, so it needs repository access, a real ticket and a named reviewer from day one. If those are not ready, hire against the general brief instead — a developer intern with nothing to build leaves inside a month, and usually tells their campus why.

Always. Students plan around semester dates, and a listing without a start date and duration is filtered out by exactly the organised candidates you want. For Power BI roles, stating "three months, starting June" typically produces more applications than an open-ended listing at a higher stipend.

Both. The pool covers every major hiring city and hundreds of tier-2 and tier-3 towns, and the role can be posted as remote, hybrid or on-site. For Power BI work specifically, remote widens the pool considerably — filter on skill and availability rather than pin code unless the work genuinely requires presence.