Originally Posted by Reactivity

For me, it was about five years from application to the first call. (I had applied and even interviewed way back in 2002. It was four years from the first application after about six years of not applying for various reasons.) Got invited to the meet & greet in January of 2017 and was told to expect a call for an interview shortly thereafter. Nine months later, I got the usual "please reapply" message.

There you go. The phone will ring when it rings, and that doesn't mean that it means anything.