High-flying graduate, 22, who got job with one of Britain’s top cyber security firms took her own life while suffering from ‘imposter syndrome’

Amy Havers, a 22-year-old University of Bristol graduate, took her own life ten months after starting a graduate job at BAE Digital Intelligence. An inquest heard that she believed she was underperforming and falling behind colleagues, despite receiving positive feedback; her family and partner described how distressing the job had become for her.

Havers had excelled in a summer internship before being offered a Business Analyst role, and graduated with a high 2:1 in Business and Management. Her father told investigators she experienced “imposter syndrome”; her partner said she often cried after work and felt she was burdening others. She had no known prior history of depression, and had seen a therapist, but remained convinced she was not doing well.