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It's common to have such a blacklist. It's uncommon that even senior executives don't have the authority to remove people wrongly added to it.

This is standard everywhere I've worked.

If your manager checks the unregretted attrition box on the exit forms (the name varies, but it invariably means they wouldn't want you back), you're not getting rehired without intervention from someone fairly senior.

I once was invited to apply for a job by a company that I quit less than two years earlier, specifically because I worked there so they kept a whitelist of former employees rather than a blacklist. And I know of at least one person that took such offer and came back and was happy about it.

Amazon has one.