It might. I think you should do whatever maximizes your chances to work with as many people as possible. A 50% pay cut sounds big, so you should also look int

It might. I think you should do whatever maximizes your chances to work with as many people as possible. A 50% pay cut sounds big, so you should also look into whether having that extra money gives you more free time. Get involved with projects in your community. Get involved with Meetup groups. Go to hackathons and join teams. Get involved in open source projects. It doesn't really matter what the projects are (as long as you find them interesting and marginally worthwhile of course), what matters is you are getting practice working with a lot of different people and building your network of people you've worked with. In order to find 10 great people you love working with, you need to work with hundreds. If you'd work with >5x as many people at the new job, then it's probably worth the pay cut.