What CCAT score do you need at Ping Identity?
Ping Identity, the identity-security company owned by Thoma Bravo since 2022, has screened candidates across roles — sales, project management, engineering — with the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test. Candidates report the assessment lands before the recruiter screen, meaning your score is often the first thing anyone evaluates. The practice traces back to Vista Equity Partners' investment years and, per candidate and employee reports, continued under Thoma Bravo.
Estimated: high 20s to mid 30s of 50, typical of PE-backed software firms
No Ping-specific cutoff has ever surfaced in candidate reports. The realistic guide is the pattern across private-equity-backed software companies, where roughly 31/50 (top 20% of test-takers) is commonly considered competitive for most roles and mid-30s for strategy and product roles. The CCAT average is about 24/50. Treat every number here as an estimate.
How Ping Identity's screen works
Candidate reports describe the assessment arriving after the application clears an ATS screen and before any phone call — standing out on the test is what earns the recruiter conversation. The CCAT is typically paired with a personality questionnaire, and some roles add technical assessments on top.
Expect integrity measures: candidates have reported webcam-observed sittings, including being asked to record themselves while taking the test. Fitting for an identity-verification company — and a reason your preparation has to produce real, repeatable speed rather than one assisted run.
How to prepare
The CCAT mixes math and word problems, verbal reasoning, and abstract logic at 18 seconds per question on average, and it's designed so most people don't finish. Train the three sections separately to find your fast categories, then drill full 15-minute simulations until triage — answer, skip, move — is automatic.
One employee review noted the test 'slows down the hiring process' because some strong candidates test poorly under time pressure. That's exactly what practice fixes: most of the score gap between a first attempt and a trained attempt is pacing, not ability.
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What CCAT score do you need at Ping Identity?
An estimated high 20s to mid 30s out of 50 — no Ping-specific cutoff has ever surfaced in candidate reports. The realistic guide is the pattern across private-equity-backed software firms, where roughly 31/50 (top 20% of test-takers) is competitive for most roles and mid-30s for strategy and product roles.
When does Ping Identity send the CCAT?
Before the recruiter screen — candidates report the assessment arrives after the application clears an ATS check and before any phone call. Standing out on the test is what earns the recruiter conversation.
Is Ping Identity's CCAT proctored?
Expect integrity measures: candidates have reported webcam-observed sittings, including being asked to record themselves while taking the test. Your preparation has to produce real, repeatable speed rather than a one-off unobserved result.
What does Ping Identity's test include?
The CCAT mixes math and word problems, verbal reasoning, and abstract logic at 18 seconds per question on average, designed so most people don't finish. It's typically paired with a personality questionnaire in the same sitting.