What CCAT score do you need at Finastra?
Finastra, the Vista Equity Partners-owned financial software company, screens candidates with a two-part Criteria assessment: a personality section followed by the CCAT — 50 questions in 15 minutes. Candidate reports place it early in the funnel, before any interview, and it features heavily in early-career and graduate engineering hiring, where it's often paired with a separate coding test.
Estimated: 30+ of 50 to be competitive; no verified cutoff
Finastra doesn't publish thresholds. Some prep sites claim graduates need around 40/50 — treat that skeptically, as it matches the generic 'top percentile' figure those sites use everywhere and no first-hand report confirms it. What's solid: the CCAT average is about 24/50, roughly 31 is top-20%, and Vista-family companies are known to hire from the upper end of the distribution.
How Finastra's assessment works
Candidates describe the Criteria assessment as two parts in one sitting: an untimed personality questionnaire first, then the timed CCAT. For technical roles the aptitude screen typically sits alongside a coding test (recent graduate processes have used Angular, Java, and SQL exercises), followed by technical, managerial, and HR rounds — around three to four weeks end to end.
Two practical notes from candidate reports: assessment invitations have landed in spam folders, so watch your email after applying; and Criteria's verification step means you may be asked to re-sit the test under webcam proctoring later in the process, so your practice needs to build real speed, not one lucky run.
How to prepare
As a Vista portfolio company, Finastra follows the playbook that treats cognitive aptitude as the leading hiring signal — the score is read before your CV gets serious attention. The CCAT gives you 18 seconds per question on average and almost nobody finishes all 50, so train triage: answer what's fast for you, skip what isn't, and never let one question eat a minute.
Mix your practice across all three sections — numerical, verbal, and logic — under a live clock. Most candidates lose the most points not on hard questions but on easy ones they never reached.
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What CCAT score do you need at Finastra?
An estimated 30 or more out of 50 to be competitive — no verified cutoff exists. Some prep sites claim graduates need around 40/50, but treat that skeptically: it matches the generic 'top percentile' figure those sites use everywhere and no first-hand report confirms it. What's solid: the CCAT average is about 24/50 and roughly 31 is top-20%.
What is Finastra's assessment format?
A two-part Criteria sitting: an untimed personality questionnaire first, then the timed CCAT — 50 questions in 15 minutes. For technical roles the aptitude screen typically sits alongside a separate coding test.
Will Finastra make you re-sit the test under proctoring?
Possibly — Criteria's verification step means you may be asked to re-sit the test under webcam proctoring later in the process, so your unproctored score needs to be repeatable. Train for real, consistent speed rather than a one-off result.
When does Finastra send the assessment?
Early in the funnel, before any interview — and assessment invitations have reportedly landed in spam folders, so watch your email closely after applying.