Google Demands Even Salespeople Use AI Or Risk Terrible Performance Reviews

KEY POINTS

•Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees across technical and non-technical roles to increase usage of internal AI tools.
•Managers have informed non-technical staff their AI use will impact performance reviews, with some sales roles getting usage quotas.
•Google’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi revealed in early 2025 that half of the company’s code is now AI-generated and reviewed by humans.

In a masterstroke of corporate subtlety, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last year to stop flailing and start dating AI, not just engineers, but every poor soul in non-technical roles too. Managers now expect customer-obsessed salespeople to buddy up with AI avatars like 'Yoodli' — which sounds like a rejected yogurt brand but is actually their internal chatbot for sales banter rehearsals. By 2026, usage of AI tools like 'Goose' and 'Duckie' will be part of your career karma in Googler Reviews And Development (GRAD). To help with this, Google’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi proudly announced 50% of the company’s code is now written by code-loving agents, triple the 30% claim Sundar made just months before. Quotas for AI tool usage are real, and senior staff must flex more AI-savvy than their rookies. So, if you’re not pleading with AI in meetings, you might as well be trading your job for dial-up internet.