
Don't create "fake" promises when the company is dying.
On the "Australian" bank project, I worked over 90 hours per week with no overtime pay in 2016. I nearly suffered a fatal heart attack during this time.
NexJ Systems's stock price went down from $9.00 to less than $3.00 within a decade. This meant that the employee' stock values went down by 2/3. Lots of highly experienced employees got angry and left NexJ in 2017.