diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/v2/BUILD.bazel b/google/cloud/bigquery/v2/BUILD.bazel
index fb79a3f26ef91..85e9f39360142 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/v2/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/v2/BUILD.bazel
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ py_gapic_library(
     name = "bigquery_py_gapic",
     srcs = [":bigquery_proto"],
     grpc_service_config = "bigquery_grpc_service_config.json",
+    opt_args=["autogen-snippets=False"]
 )
 
 py_gapic_assembly_pkg(