There are lots of Drupal developers around. Why not hire one instead of training people from scratch? If your job involves something new like Drupal then you get on and learn it, there are plenty of resources around. Perhaps novice Drupal developers are the problem.
Note, I do not like working with Drupal but I have seen some really impressive things done with it.
The author says Symfony is dying. The opposite is true. Symphony2 and it's components are becoming more popular and are being used in other frameworks like Laravel. If you are following php into 5.4 at the very least you will know about symfony. You will probably be using some components of it.
Trouble with hiring "drupal developers" is that they are more then likely NOT developers. They are people with no engineering training who learned how to configure drupal sites and plug some hacked solutions into less then optimal places in the code.
People with proper development pedigree tend to sneer at the Drupal platform, and with good reason. This makes hiring incredibly difficult.
Note, I do not like working with Drupal but I have seen some really impressive things done with it.
The author says Symfony is dying. The opposite is true. Symphony2 and it's components are becoming more popular and are being used in other frameworks like Laravel. If you are following php into 5.4 at the very least you will know about symfony. You will probably be using some components of it.