diff --git a/test/parallel/test-worker-init-failure.js b/test/parallel/test-worker-init-failure.js
index a15d8a75617a16..078329ee68874f 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-worker-init-failure.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-worker-init-failure.js
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ if (common.isWindows) {
   common.skip('ulimit does not work on Windows.');
 }
 
+if (process.config.variables.node_builtin_modules_path) {
+  common.skip('this test cannot pass when Node.js is built with --node-builtin-modules-path');
+}
+
 // A reasonably low fd count. An empty node process
 // creates around 30 fds for its internal purposes,
 // so making it too low will crash the process early,