diff --git a/packages/jest-cli/src/cli/index.ts b/packages/jest-cli/src/cli/index.ts
index 96d817616ae8..c4024ea7aab1 100644
--- a/packages/jest-cli/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-cli/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -28,16 +28,9 @@ export async function run(maybeArgv?: Array<string>, project?: Config.Path) {
       return;
     }
 
-    const {isGlobalProject, projects} = getProjectListFromCLIArgs(
-      argv,
-      project,
-    );
-
-    const {results, globalConfig} = await runCLI(
-      argv,
-      projects,
-      isGlobalProject,
-    );
+    const projects = getProjectListFromCLIArgs(argv, project);
+
+    const {results, globalConfig} = await runCLI(argv, projects);
     readResultsAndExit(results, globalConfig);
   } catch (error) {
     clearLine(process.stderr);
@@ -90,7 +83,6 @@ const getProjectListFromCLIArgs = (
   argv: Config.Argv,
   project?: Config.Path,
 ) => {
-  let isGlobalProject = false;
   const projects = argv.projects ? argv.projects : [];
 
   if (project) {
@@ -100,7 +92,6 @@ const getProjectListFromCLIArgs = (
   if (!projects.length && process.platform === 'win32') {
     try {
       projects.push(realpath(process.cwd()));
-      isGlobalProject = true;
     } catch (err) {
       // do nothing, just catch error
       // process.binding('fs').realpath can throw, e.g. on mapped drives
@@ -108,11 +99,10 @@ const getProjectListFromCLIArgs = (
   }
 
   if (!projects.length) {
-    isGlobalProject = true;
     projects.push(process.cwd());
   }
 
-  return {isGlobalProject, projects};
+  return projects;
 };
 
 const readResultsAndExit = (
diff --git a/packages/jest-config/src/index.ts b/packages/jest-config/src/index.ts
index 8b65985db130..38e4f5a8cee2 100644
--- a/packages/jest-config/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-config/src/index.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import {Config} from '@jest/types';
 import chalk = require('chalk');
+import {sync as realpath} from 'realpath-native';
 import {isJSONString, replaceRootDirInPath} from './utils';
 import normalize from './normalize';
 import resolveConfigPath from './resolveConfigPath';
@@ -263,7 +264,6 @@ This usually means that your ${chalk.bold(
 export function readConfigs(
   argv: Config.Argv,
   projectPaths: Array<Config.Path>,
-  isGlobalProject: boolean,
 ): {
   globalConfig: Config.GlobalConfig;
   configs: Array<Config.ProjectConfig>;
@@ -308,10 +308,12 @@ export function readConfigs(
         return true;
       })
       .map((root, projectIndex) => {
-        // Skip on all except: projectIndex === 0, and isGlobalProject, and projects.length === 1
+        // Skip on all except: projectIndex === 0, projects[0] === process.cwd() or realpath(process.cwd()) on Windows, and projects.length === 1
         const skipArgvConfigOption = !(
           projectIndex === 0 &&
-          isGlobalProject &&
+          (process.platform === 'win32'
+            ? projects[0] === realpath(process.cwd())
+            : projects[0] === process.cwd()) &&
           projects.length === 1
         );
         return readConfig(
diff --git a/packages/jest-core/src/cli/index.ts b/packages/jest-core/src/cli/index.ts
index 2a730bdd5d6b..ad2f2e2bea73 100644
--- a/packages/jest-core/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-core/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ type OnCompleteCallback = (results: AggregatedResult) => void;
 export const runCLI = async (
   argv: Config.Argv,
   projects: Array<Config.Path>,
-  isGlobalProject: boolean,
 ): Promise<{
   results: AggregatedResult;
   globalConfig: Config.GlobalConfig;
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ export const runCLI = async (
   const {globalConfig, configs, hasDeprecationWarnings} = readConfigs(
     argv,
     projects,
-    isGlobalProject,
   );
 
   if (argv.debug) {