Flipkart goes shopping in Google!

Technology is emerging as the biggest battlefront for Indian eCommerce and software firms. With leading companies as Infosys and Flipkart hiring engineers groomed in toptier US companies to acquire the domain edge they need to dominate rivals, the need for efficient employee seems to have peaked up. No wonder they are poaching talent from the competition—even from Google. A news report by the Economic Times has confirmed thatBengaluru-based eCommerce giant Flipkart is hiring another top engineer from Google, highlighting a trend among the country's fast-growing companies to tap into Silicon Valley for talent to bolster their technology fronts.

Sources have informed the financial daily that Peeyush Ranjan, a senior engineering director at Google, will join Flipkart's commerce division led by Mukesh Bansal in a key role.

This is nothing new, since the company had hired another Google engineering leader, Punit Soni as a chief product officer in the same division last month. Soni will join Flipkart this month and Ranjan likely in May. As per the news report, Mukesh along with Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal had met around three-dozen potential hires in the Valley last month.

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