Wow is this just a shitpost (it was funny!) or do your builds actually take about an hour? That's nuts, if so.

A fresh build of a large C++ project taking 1 hour does not sound strange at all.

If that's an incremental build though (i.e. simply rebuilding after changing a few files), there's something very wrong.

FASTBuild has been a game changer for our team recently if you have extra hardware sitting around.

https://www.fastbuild.org/docs/home.html