Hey Constantin,
of course these 60 (!) seconds will not be taken into account for our build-minutes, right?
We already wasted quite a lot of minutes due to the problems with the Cocoapods Specs-repo cloning-issue, our builds took up to 45, 50 minutes then.
Since there was no solution in sight from Circles side and the Specs-repo was unfortunately not sharded back then, we created our own Specs repo with only the Specs we needed.
Then, upgrade to Xcode 8.1, the multiple devices issue.
Simulators not starting, crazy 65er errors, tbh, we are currently wasting a lot of time fixing issues with Circle.
This is not your fault, but I have the feeling that Circle should urgently hire more developers, because as far as I see it, you are too few people having a lot of pressure, which inevitably leads to regressions and long times for issues to be resolved.