Agreed, Symfony2 is great, but I see it being used more in an open source project capacity. Working on it at a company where time frames are key, rapid development is huge. Plus, laravel is far more intuitive and I can ramp up new team members much faster.

That's because Laravel is a website framework and Symfony2 is an application framework.

I concur. Symfony 2 is incredibly powerful, but at the same time incredibly messy to work with.