How similar is an ASIC verification job compared to a Software job

An ASIC Verification or SOC Verification job is the same and different than a Software job profile in the same breath. In Software jobs, coding and debugging is one of the important aspects. However, both are becoming very much alike in today's technological era. The difference can be in the perspective of thought process i.e., for an AIC verification engineering profile, one needs to think very much like a hardware engineer but at the same time add a tint of software practices (programming and debugging) into action.