I completely agree with Chris's assertion that it's better to hire for talent than knowledge of highly specific frameworks. Things are going to change anyway,

I completely agree with Chris's assertion that it's better to hire for talent than knowledge of highly specific frameworks. Things are going to change anyway, so ability to learn quickly is far more important. However, I only wish his last statement were true, that "applying that to a language or framework is just a matter of figuring out the syntax...and that is the easy part". I guess it depends on how you define easy, but if this were true, I wouldn't have framework fatigue. I suppose it's easier to learn spring MVC if you already know Struts2, but for me (I should only speak for myself here), it actually isn't easy. Ditto for ant to maven, or SVN to git. You're in far better shape if you already know something related, but you're far from in the clear. Reality is, it takes (me) a long time to get truly competent in a framework. It can take months to get competent, and it can take well over a year to really master it, and that's when you have a related background.