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 config

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.