Don't blame India for your failure to hire great engineers. They join for culture and challenge https://t.co/Fqku8Xi58X — Sachin Bansal (@_sachinbansal) May 29, 2015

MUMBAI: India's startup CEOs don't hesitate to pull punches and speak their mind on social media and this includes, taking on fellow entrepreneurs. The latest salvo on Twitter comes from Sachin Bansal of Flipkart who took on Snapdeal for saying India doesn't have the programmers it needs. He was joined by Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma , who runs India's largest mobile wallet company."Dont blame India for your failure to hire great engineers. They join for culture and challenge," said the tweet from Flipkart's Bansal, who has nearly 22,000 followers. Paytm's Sharma who tweeted with a link to Bansal's post added his 140 characters with "India has engineers, architects and all you need. People seek purpose and mission to give their life to." Sharma has 12,500 followers including Snapdeal co-founder Kunal Bahl ET reported on Thursday that Snapdeal was keen on opening an office in US to strengthen its technology. Bansal's tweet was in response to a similar article in The Wall Street Journal titled 'India's Snapdeal says the country doesn't have the programmers it needs'.There was no rejoinder from Kunal Bahl or Snapdeal's other co-founder, Rohit Bansal, although Sachin Bansal's tweet attracted several comments and re-tweets. Ironically, Kunal Bahl was refused a visa to work in the US leading to him eventually founding the online marketplace, Snapdeal, in India.Earlier this month, in a post shared publicly on his Facebook page, Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav challenged Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal and Olacab's CEO Bhavish Aggarwal to follow his example by giving away at least half their equity to employees. Zomato's Goyal responded tweeting a picture of US president Barack Obama with the words 'Give that man a cookie'.