Based on the comments under the question, we came to the answer that the main reason is XDebug, which usually has a significant impact on PHP performance.
In your team, you wrote that the Symfony profiler now shows 3-6 seconds, but in practice it takes a lot more. This means that PHP itself is probably not the only problem.
I would suggest exploring the browser developer tools (Firebug, etc., depending on the browser you are using) and check the timeline on the Network tab. Perhaps this will give you additional information on where to look for the cause.
For my local computer, it usually takes PHP about a second (on dev env and depending on the state of the cache and on which page) to run Symfony.
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