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Big Tech Starts Scoring Staff on AI Use as Google Extends Push Beyond Engineers

Companies now log individual AI activity with internal tools that inform performance decisions.

Overview

  • Google managers recently told non-technical employees they are expected to use AI and that usage can be considered in performance reviews, with managers given discretion to weigh it.
  • Some Google sales teams have been assigned weekly quotas for using internal AI tools that record calls and take notes, according to employees.
  • Google’s CFO said roughly half of the company’s code is now written by AI agents and then reviewed by human engineers, reflecting how embedded these systems have become.
  • At Amazon Web Services, managers track engineers’ AI engagement on a live dashboard, and adoption can influence promotions even if it is not formally scored in reviews.
  • Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce have integrated measurement into their workflows, from Meta’s ability to track AI-assisted code lines to Microsoft’s AI-specific performance discussions and Salesforce’s AI fluency tracker and agent-mediated tasks.