diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/client.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/client.py
index 11cceea42..29eec3eae 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/client.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/client.py
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def __init__(
         bq_host = _get_bigquery_host()
         kw_args["api_endpoint"] = bq_host if bq_host != _DEFAULT_HOST else None
         if client_options:
-            if type(client_options) == dict:
+            if isinstance(client_options, dict):
                 client_options = google.api_core.client_options.from_dict(
                     client_options
                 )
diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
index 82501fe0c..1ade5b89f 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ def _reload_query_results(
         # Our system does not natively handle that and instead expects
         # either none or a numeric value. If passed a Python object, convert to
         # None.
-        if type(self._done_timeout) == object:  # pragma: NO COVER
+        if isinstance(self._done_timeout, object):  # pragma: NO COVER
             self._done_timeout = None
 
         if self._done_timeout is not None: