Video: Expedia Faces Hiring Challenges as Its Tech Needs Shift

Expedia, the online travel giant, has gained the technological ability to build new and cool things more quickly. But there's a tight labor market for engineers who can do the hard work needed to make the most of today's new tools. That was a central message of Tony Donohoe, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Expedia, who was interviewed on stage at the inaugural Skift Tech Forum in Silicon Valley in June. Donohoe has since left Expedia. Donohoe discussed how the online travel conglomerate is delving deeper into data science. He said the Bellevue, Wash.-based business needs to hire more data scientists and engineers at its offices worldwide who are comfortable with leveraging the opportunities presented by machine learning and artificial intelligence. "If you think about a piece of code and how it's normally constructed, an engineer will typically sit and read the requirements and more or less code out every combination of what needs to