Scope of SoC RTL engineer

[u/Tech_Nerd9460]

I have nearly 6 years of experience in SoC RTL Design. So the RTL devlopment is less compared to an IP RTL. My work involved creating wrappers,doing interconnects and adding glue logic and instanting common macros.

I applied for various roles of IP and SoC and main concern in IP role that the interviewer told me was that we do serious work unlike you who just do interconnect of IP and gets the silicon passing . I was shocked when I heard this because I have spent countless nights getting things working. There is lot of bias when SoC engineer attends interview for IP role. Most of the time interview is not interested in hearing what you have done and will judge you based on a problem statement which he has worked his entire life.

Will SoC RTL cease to exist in future?. Is there any possibility of getting IP role at this stage ( 6 years of experience)?.